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Thanks and a promise of prayers from Archbishop Hickey THIS WEEK, Archbishop Barry Hickey thanked the people of Perth for their support. Here is the text of his message:

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s we look forward to the Solemn Liturgical Installation of Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB as the new Archbishop of Perth, I take this opportunity to thank the Catholic people of Perth for their prayerful support, their tolerance at times and their forgiveness, but most of all for their inspiring witness to Jesus Christ and his Church led by the successor of St Peter, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. To be a Church leader

these days is not easy, but it never has been easy. The challenges facing Archbishop Costelloe will be a little different from those that I had to face, but in every age bishops in their position as successors of the Apostles have had to face the challenges of the age. Sometimes they had to face imprisonment and martyrdom in remaining faithful to Jesus’ call.

Today, in Australia, we face an increasing secularism, unbelief, the legitimising of sexual practices and unions not in accord with the Gospel, tensions within the Church for changes, some legitimate, some not so. We face a particular challenge

to draw young people to Christ in the Church. In this, some clear progress is being made, especially when the demands of discipleship are presented in all their countercultural radicality.

We face the problems of proclaiming the Good News of Jesus Christ to a world that in the main is not listening. We also face the challenge of authenticity, that is of living lives of simplicity, love, generosity and inclusion that reflect what we believe and profess.

I ask you to welcome Archbishop Timothy with joyful anticipation and to pledge your loyalty to him and his important office, as you did to me.

In the quieter days of my retirement, I will continue to pray for you the people, for the priests, deacons and religious who labour so hard for the Lord, and I hope to be of some small service in the time to come. I thank all those who have wished me well in my retirement, for those who have given me gifts and who have prayed for me. Your love and affection has touched me deeply.

May Mary our spiritual mother and mother of the Church continue to support us all with her prayers. +B J Hickey March 2012 Installation ceremony - Page 3

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Parish priest hopes to see midnight car crash survivor locals at church

Say ten Hail Marys...

TWO men in Greenwood must have wondered what had happened when they crawled out of the wreckage of the car they were driving in the early hours of Friday, 9 March.

Gazing down on them from the front of the upturned car in the driveway of All Saints Church was the Blessed Virgin Mary – actually, a statue of her.

“I think Mary must have been watching over them. I’m wondering whether they thought ‘am I in heaven?’ parish priest Fr Vinh Dong told The Record. However, he said, he had been asleep when the 3am crash took place and didn’t see the car until 6.45am when he got up for his exercise session.

A neighbour who did hear the crash got up and saw the dazed men crawling from the wreckage.

Fr Vinh said the man called on them to stop but they fled the scene.

Police traced the men to a nearby residence and took them to hospital but they were released after treatment for minor injuries. “I think they only had a few scratches to the head. It’s amazing,” Fr Dong said.

He said he understood the vehicle had been travelling along Orkney Road, mounted the footpath, struck the parish fence and then flipped in mid-air before coming to rest on its roof.

The car was removed later that morning but not until after a requiem Mass which was celebrated at the parish church.

The statue of Mary near where the vehicle landed had been in its niche for 25 years since the parish was first built.

“I hope I see them coming to church soon,” he said. “They live near here.”

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The car accident which resulted in minor injuries only, overlooked by Our Lady at All Saints Church, Greenwood.

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College basks in the legacy of those early Mercy Sisters

By Mark Reidy “THE Blessedness of Unity” theme of Mercy College’s annual Community Mass on February 17 was reflected in the 350 people who packed into the school’s Chapel of St Brigid.

Those in attendance included staff, the Parent Council, the College Board, student representatives and their parents, and each group received a blessing from Girrawheen Parish Priest, Fr Albert Saminedi.

The college’s Community Relations Officer, Chas Bursey, said the theme had been chosen to highlight the importance of everyone in the Mercy community uniting in the best interests of the students: “To emphasise our unity, the choir was made up of students and staff and Fr Sam gave a powerful homily about everyone working together.”

Mr Bursey said at the conclusion of Mass, College Principal, Tony Curry, acknowledged the Sisters of Mercy who founded the college over 40 years ago, and in a moving presentation a special gift of thanksgiving was presented to those sisters in attendance.

Mercy College is a Catholic, coeducational school established by the Sisters of Mercy in 1972.

It caters for over 1600 students from Kindergarten to Year Twelve.

The Sisters of Mercy have established many schools in Western Australia, dating back to the arrival of the first Mercy sisters to Western Australia in 1846, including schools in West Perth, Leederville, Lesmurdie, Osborne Park and Wanneroo.

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Mercy College students prepare to serve at the annual Mercy College Community Mass last month.

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Award winner Jessica Brewer’s passion for protecting children has paid off and is now recognised. is passionate about what she does, providing assistance to vulnerable, disadvantaged children in the WA community,” she said.

The awards were presented by the Children’s Youth and Family Agencies Association at an award night held in November at the South Perth Yacht Club.

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JESSICA Brewer’s passion for the protection of children has paid off.

Ms Brewer, MercyCare’s coordinator of Fostering Services has been awarded the 2011 Danny Bell Memorial Award for Effective Practice.

The 27-year-old was nominated for the award by her colleagues who described her as a dedicated advocate for child protection.

“It really was a surprise to win the award, I was up against people who do such an excellent job in their field,” she said.

“I’ve put in a lot of work over the past year and it’s nice to be recognised by my team and in the industry for fulfilling the goals I had set out to achieve.”

Jessica began working at MercyCare Fostering Services in 2005 as a social worker and has since moved up to the role of coordinator, supervising and managing a team of eight who provide homes for up to 50 children and young people.

“I really enjoy working with children and young people; it’s a meaningful job where I can make a difference,” she said.

“Working in a management role, I do miss working one-on-one with the kids, although I feel I can have a greater impact on their well being on a different level and really advo-

cate on their behalf within the sector.”

MercyCare then acting CEO Anthea Kingsley said the team at MercyCare was proud and delighted not only with Jessica’s award win but also with her day to day commitment to her work.

“Jessica is a dedicated and compassionate member of our team who excels in her role because she

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Global total surges, but some declines THE NUMBER of Catholics in the world and the number of deacons, priests and bishops all increased in 2010, while the number of women in religious orders continued to decline, according to Vatican statistics.

At the end of 2010, the worldwide Catholic population reached 1.196 billion, an increase of 15 million or 1.3 per cent, slightly outpacing the global population growth rate, which was estimated at 1.1 per cent, said a statement published

on March 10 by the Vatican press office. Catholics as a percentage of the global population “remained stable at around 17.5 per cent,” it said.

The statement reported a handful of the statistics contained in the 2012 Annuario Pontificio, a yearbook containing information about every Vatican office, as well as every diocese and religious order in the world.

Detailed statistics in the yearbook are based on reports from

dioceses and religious orders as of December 31, 2010.

The percentage of Catholics declined slightly in South America from 28.5 per cent to 28.3 per cent of the regional population, and dropped considerably in Europe from 24 percent to 23.8 per cent.

The percentage of Catholics increased in 2010 by just under half a per centage point in Southeast Asia and Africa.

The number of priests went from 410,593 to 412,236, increasing eve-

rywhere except Europe. The number of permanent deacons reported was an increase of more than 1,400 over the previous year.

97.5 percent of the world’s permanent deacons live in the Americas or in Europe. The number of men joining a religious order showed “a setback,” the Vatican said, with an increase of only 436 male religious worldwide in 2010.

The number of women in religious orders fell by more than 7,000 in 2010, despite showing

a two per cent increase in both Asia and Africa. At the end of the year, Catholic women’s orders had 721,935 members. The number of seminarians around the world showed continued growth, from 117,978 at the end of 2009 to 118,990 at the end of 2010.

In the last five years, the number of seminarians rose more than 14 per cent in Africa, 13 percent in Asia and 12.3 per cent in Oceania.

Numbers decreased in other regions of the world.

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Kids’ safety stalled in mountain of bureaucracy

By Sarah Motherwell ELLENBROOK resident and mother of two Emma Hall, 34, says she can no longer walk her two sons to school because the lack of a crosswalk in the area is putting the lives of children and parents in danger.

Mrs Hall is the president of the Parents and Friends Association at St Helena’s Catholic Primary School and for the past year has been fighting for a crosswalk to be built outside the main entrance of the school on Fortescue Place.

The issue of road safety is one close to the mother’s heart after a car accident 20 years ago left her wheelchair bound.

Mrs Hall says traffic during the times of the day when parents are dropping off and picking up their children is always bumper-tobumper.

“So far, no accidents have involved children but there have been some very close calls,” she said.

She added it comes down to parents who are frustrated for sitting in line for so long and go over the 40km/h speed limit.

City of Swan CEO Mike Foley said the City encourages parents and children to consider other transport options such as cycling or walking to reduce traffic congestion.

“The City also encourages those parents who live too far away for the children to walk or cycle to park up to 300m away, from where the children would be able to walk to school,” Mr Foley said.

According to Kid Safe WA, pedestrian injury is a leading cause of child injury death in Australia

Emma Hall, 34, with her sons Connor, 8, and Jack, 4, at the pedestrian entrance of St Helena’s Catholic Primary School.

and every week a child pedestrian is killed. There are currently 550 students studying at St Helena’s Catholic Primary School aged from four to 12. The school neighbours a daycare centre and Ellenbrook Primary School.

Mrs Hall said school zones are automatically 40km so why not

make the provision of crosswalks in school zones automatic as well.

For the past year, she has campaigned on behalf of parents to have a crosswalk built in the area; however, her attempts to submit the application were delayed because her local government refused to sign the agreement to construct

Open invitation to welcome Archbishop Costelloe PARISHIONERS across the Archdiocese of Perth are invited to attend the Solemn Mass and Reception for Archbishopdesignate Timothy Costelloe SDB, on March 21 at 6.30pm at St Mary’s Cathedral.

Archbishop Barry Hickey will officially hand the Archdiocese of Perth to his successor at this historic Liturgy.

Archbishop Costelloe, a member of the Salesian order, holds a Doctorate in Sacred Theology. He comes to Perth from Melbourne, but has four years experience in this Archdiocese. He was based here in the mid-late 1990s at St Joachim’s in Victoria Park and at the University of Notre Dame, Australia, as a lecturer.

Seating inside the Cathedral has been allocated to 1000 invited guests including Apostolic Nuncio Giuseppe Lazzarotto, several Australian Archbishops and Bishops, all Archdiocesan priests, deacons and seminarians.

However, all the faithful who

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would like to attend are most welcome to watch the Liturgical proceedings take place on big TV screens - set up in the piazza areas of the Cathedral grounds. All those welcomed in the piazza areas will be able to participate in the Mass and receive Holy Communion if they wish.

Tea and coffee will be served to all guests gathered in the grounds, on the Victoria Avenue side of the Cathedral.

the crosswalk. It was only signed in November last year when Ellenbrook resident Patty Williams visited the City of Swan office in Midland and refused to leave until a council member authorised the document.

Earlier this year the Department of Main Roads confirmed in an

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email to Mrs Hall they had received the application.

Ellenbrook police are currently conducting a traffic survey; however, they are not disclosing which days they will be present.

Mrs Hall said a number of parents had already volunteered to man the crosswalk.

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From Pt Kennedy with love

By Mark Reidy RATHER than sit back and put their feet up to enjoy the twilight years of their lives, Port Kennedy parishioners, John and Lyn Quilty have instead chosen to spend three months assisting orphaned and disabled children in central Vietnam.

In an email interview with The Record from the town of Tam Ky, John Quilty shared the couple’s journey from active parishioners at St Bernadette’s to teaching English, entertaining children and massaging disabled limbs. “We visited Vietnam for six weeks last year, travelled widely, and fell in love with the country and its people”, he explained, “so we decided we’d like to return and do something more constructive”.

Mr Quilty investigated numerous agencies that were offering opportunities for volunteers before opting for the New Zealand based Global Volunteer Network, a decision that has been validated since their arrival in mid-February.

“My research on the net suggested the organisation was well organised, well motivated and highly professional, and our experience to date has confirmed this judgement”, he said. Working with people with disabilities is not a new experience for the Quilty’s with Mr Quilty having spent half a day each week for the past 10 years working as a volunteer with disabled adults in their local area and Mrs Quilty having worked with children with a range of disabilities in her role as a teacher over the past 17 years. Mr

Students of the Port Kennedy parish that parishioners John and Lyn Quilty have been helping in Vietnam.

Quilty explained that the goal of the local program they are currently involved in is to assist children in developing the necessary life skills and self-confidence.

In the case of those with disabilities they aim to help children develop the emotional strength and understanding to lead fulfilling lives, overcoming any physical, mental and/or social disadvantages. The Quilty’s day begins at a

children’s orphanage where John assists with the massaging and physiotherapy treatment of those children with disabilities as well as spending recreational time with the younger children.

Meanwhile, Mrs Quilty teaches English and helps out with the bathing of babies. In the afternoons they head to “Peace Village” which accommodates 20 older children and young adults who are moder-

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“After this Lyn takes a group for drawing while I have a one-on-one with a girl, teaching her to walk and helping her with basic English skills.”

T H E Western Australian Government has confirmed St John of God Health Care is the preferred respondent for the new Midland Health Campus, a 367-bed modern and innovative health facility for public and private patients.

St John of God Health Care’s Group CEO, Dr Michael Stanford, said the organisation will be working closely with the State in the coming months to finalise contractual matters.

“We are committed to extending our distinctive care to a range of public and private health care services for the community served by the Midland Health Campus.” he said.

“Along with our hospital design and construction partners, Hassell and Brookfield Multiplex, we look forward to building a world-class health care facility.”

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SCHOOL BALLS La Salle College Graduation Ball Burswood Grand Ballroom Photos: Courtesy La Salle College

Lisa Pitt with Benjamin Calleja (La Salle College teacher).

Chiamaka Ikealumba and her father, Dr Ikealumba.

Peta Hargreaves with son Elliott Hargreaves.

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A SALLE’S graduating class of 2011 took the fourth commandment to the dance floor late last year, reserving pride of place and the first dance of the evening for mum and dad.

Photographs have recently emerged from the event – the La Salle College Graduation Ball - held on Tuesday, 6 December 2011 at Burswood’s Grand Ballroom.

La Salle College told The Record the parents’ first dance is something of a tradition for the school.

Those students whose parents couldn’t attend were invited to ask their favourite teacher for the first dance.

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Flexing his pipes at 80, priest delivers the goods FATHER Matthew McPhee, a Carmelite Friar gifted with a strong lyrical tenor voice, has, at the age of 80, released his first CD, 12 Beautiful Songs.

Delighting audiences with his singing over the years, Fr Matthew was finally persuaded by fellow Carmelite Fr Paul Gurr, himself a talented musician, to release a CD. The primary incentive for the recording was to raise funds for a cause close to Fr McPhee’s heart; the education and formation of young Timorese Carmelites in

East Timor. “The reason we did this was for East Timor – we have a lot of young men over there to be educated for the priesthood and brotherhood.

“They’ve got to be housed, fed and educated. It costs a lot of money, so a little thing like this helps.” On completing their studies, these young men will work to address both the spiritual and practical needs of a nation afflicted by trauma and poverty.

Fr McPhee developed his singing career after a chance encounter

outside a convent 30 years ago. He saw a man walk by and then lean against a fence.

He asked the man if he was OK, and the reply was ‘no’. Fr McPhee walked the man to his home which was nearby.

“When I went into his home there were a number of oil paintings in the room (depicting opera).

I asked him what these occasions were, and he said ‘I used to sing grand opera’,” Fr Mc Phee said.

“I said to him, with tongue in cheek, ‘I do a bit of singing myself ’,

and his whole demeanour changed, as he immediately became ‘the maestro’. He said to me, ‘You have not heard your own voice, I would like to teach you’.

“I went to him for about two years after that. He never taught me a song, but he taught me exercises and where to position my voice.

Thanks to him I am still singing because it’s not a strain to take high notes.”

The 12 Beautiful Songs CD includes tender renditions of some of Fr Matthew’s favourite songs, and

has been a resounding fundraising success to date.

The CD includes both traditional Scottish and Irish folk songs such as Scotland the Brave, O Danny Boy and She Moved Through the Fair along with contemporary classics such as The Rose and Love Changes Everything.

Copies of the CD can be ordered by contacting The Carmelites Fundraising Development Office on 9690 8822 or by email at solmcd2@netspace.net.au. The CD costs $25 plus postage.

Film cuts right to the bone for star actress

Pumping living water years after retirement

A still from pro-life film October Baby.

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Archbishop Barry Hickey joins VOV for Mass.

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CNS - ACTRESS Shari Rigby sat right across from her interviewer, her legs crossed. On the instep of her right foot was a tattoo of a flower. She was asked what it was.

“Her name would have been Lily,” Rigby answered, “and so that’s there to remind me.”

She was talking about the baby she had aborted 20 years ago. Rigby plays a relatively small part in new movie October Baby but it’s a pivotal role: She plays the birth mother of Hannah (Rachel Hendrix), but Hannah was born as the survivor of a botched abortion; Hannah’s twin brother only survived a handful of days after the abortion attempt.

But the kicker is that brother directors Andrew and Jon Erwin, when they sent Rigby the script for her consideration, had no idea she had ever undergone an abortion.

In fact, Jon Erwin told Catholic News Service, it wasn’t until after the movie had been shown to several focus groups that Rigby went in front of the camera again to address moviegoers about her own abortion experience which has been added to the film’s closing credits.

“There are millions and millions of post-abortive women out there,” Erwin said.

October Baby, which debuts 23 March in about 360 theatres, details the revelation to college student Hannah about the circumstances behind her birth, and her quest to find the woman who tried to abort her.

The movie also stars John Schneider (The Dukes of Hazzard, Smallville) as Hannah’s father and Jasmine Guy (A Different World) as the nurse from the abortion clinic all those years ago.

Erwin, Rigby and Hendrix spent two days in the Washington area to promote October Baby, conducting a joint interview with CNS at a Washington hotel.

The film will be released in cinemas in the US on 23 March.

No Australian release dates have been announced.

ACTING Archbishop Barry Hickey will have a Voice of the Voiceless ministry water project named after him.

He joined members of the ministry on Saturday, 25 February for their first Mass of the year.

The Ministry took the opportunity to announce it would name its latest project to bring clean water to the villages in Ammuri Town, Nigeria after the archbishop.

Voice of the Voiceless was founded in 2006 and has since provided assistance to a seminary in Fiji, orphanages in the Philippines and Vietnam, and a leper colony in Nigeria.

Work has already begun on the “Archbishop Barry James Hickey clear water project” with the digging of wells commencing this week. It is hoped the project will be completed by year’s end.

Last year, The Record reported Voice of the Voiceless had spread to Melbourne, London and Nigeria.

VOV was founded by Nigerianborn Fr Nicholas Nweke.

Br Joe Murphy cfc wants to share 50 plus years of Biblical knowledge in a new course.

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Brother brings it home for Catholics wanting to know BROTHER Joe Murphy cfc is all for delving. When it comes to holy Scripture, he’s been teaching others to do the same for over 50 years.

Recipients of his teaching passion include none other than The Faith Centre’s Fr Robert Cross to whom he taught religion in Grade 3 in Geraldton in 1962.

“I won’t say anything about him,” Br Joe said, cracking a furtive smile.

“He can say what he likes about me.”

Br Joe was Archbishop Barry Hickey’s “go to” man when wanting to offer an open learning Scripture study course through The Faith Centre, the archdiocesan office for evangelisation established last year.

The course on offer is the same one Br Joe helped develop for the Lebone Catholic Bible College in Johannesburg.

“It’s equivalent to one year fulltime study at a university but people who aren’t academically inclined can probably handle it because it’s at a level where you assume nothing; starting from scratch,” Br Joe said.

While there’s nothing wrong with personal reflection on the Bible, Catholics were missing out on the bigger picture if they didn’t investigate Scripture.

Context couldn’t be more important, Br Joe said.

“There’s so much fundamentalism - reading the Bible in a simplistic, literal way and ... in the extreme it’s not healthy; it’s not healthy at all,” Br Joe said.

“Hopefully, this course is a sort of a balance (to that).”

The course is comprised of 18 study guides split into nine modules of which 16 must be completed to gain accreditation (eight modules).

Participants can pay for the distance learning course up front ($380) or can pay for each module separately ($55), to test the waters.

For more information, contact 6140 2420 or info@thefaith.org.au or visit www.thefaith.org.au.

Water a right and not for usury VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Clean and potable water is a human right, not a for-profit commodity dependent on market logic, said the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in a recent document. Unfortunately, “there persists an excessively commercial conception of water which runs the risk of mistaking it for just another kind of merchandise, and making investments for the sake of profit alone, without taking into account water’s worth” as a public good, it said. “There is a risk of not seeing one’s brothers and sisters as human beings possessing the right to a dignified existence, but rather seeing them as simply customers.”

While the international community has recognised access to clean water as a human right, about half of the world’s population lacks it.

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John Paul II is still speaking to youth AFTER a hugely successful season last year, Love and Responsibility in Sydney is set to begin again this week at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney Campus.

It began last year as an initiative of the Sydney chaplaincy team where students and young professionals aim at understanding love and relationships within a context of Catholic teaching.

Discussion is based on the chapters of Love and Responsibility,

a philosophical text written by Blessed Pope John Paul II. Student Chaplaincy Convenor, Jessica Langrell, said the last Love and Responsibility event drew over 150 young people and tomorrow’s event also looks set to fill the Broadway courtyard.

“After such a strong response from university students from Notre Dame and other local campuses, we are expecting numbers to grow again as word has spread

about this fantastic event,” Ms Langrell said. “The setup of the night is casual and relaxed, with complimentary food and drinks.

“This is followed by a reading of, and discussion about, the book Men, Women and the Mystery of Love which allows for challenging, thought-provoking discussion about genuine friendships and authentic relationships.”

The group is run and moderated by 30 young adults.

Meet one of world’s greatest minds: UNDA offer

Professor John Finnis, esteemed in both philosophy and law, will teach a unit at UNDA Sydney this year.

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IT IS rare to have the opportunity to study philosophy under the tuition of one of the greatest legal and philosophical scholars of our time.

Now, staff and students of academic institutions and members of the public have the chance to do so when Professor John Finnis presents an intensive unit, The Foundations and Reach of Human (Natural) Rights, at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney Campus.

Senior Deputy Vice Chancellor Professor Hayden Ramsay said Notre Dame was deeply honoured that Professor Finnis had accepted the visiting lecturer appointment in the School of Philosophy and Theology.

“Notre Dame is thrilled that Professor John Finnis, the distinguished philosophical thinker, will present this unit at Notre Dame,” Professor Ramsay said.

“We are delighted to open these lectures to university staff and students from all institutions so that all those interested in the intersection of law and philosophy may benefit from Professor Finnis’ expert commentary in these fields.”

The 25 credit point unit involves two three-hour seminars weekly over four consecutive weeks with Professor Finnis, followed by supplementary lectures. Students may enrol in the subject through crossinstitutional studies or individuals may complete this unit for audit.

Those undertaking the unit will be required to submit preparatory assignments prior to commencing the unit and an essay upon completion.

The Foundations and Reach of Human (Natural) Rights will run between Monday, 7 May and

Wednesday, 30 May and will consider such topics as the rationale of legal and moral rights, the history of talk and thought about rights and the place of rights in contemporary Catholic thought.

Professor Finnis is well known for his work in moral, political and legal theory, as well as constitutional law. He is Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy at University College, Oxford; Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana; and was recently awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Notre Dame Australia. Professor Finnis’ publications include Moral Absolutes: Tradition, Revision and Truth; Aquinas: Moral, Political and Legal Theory; and Natural Law and Human Rights.

Professor John Finnis has served as a Governor of the Linacre Centre for Health Care Ethics, on the International Theological Commission and the Pontifical Council for the Justice and Peace.

He is presently serving on the Pontifical Academy for Life.

Professor Finnis has held positions at a number of eminent universities for over four decades. Since 1995, Professor Finnis has served as the Biolchini Family Professor of Law at The University of Notre Dame in the United States. He recently retired from his personal Chair of Law and Legal Philosophy in the University of Oxford, where he remains an active teacher and doctoral supervisor as Emeritus Professor.

Enrolments for The Foundations and Reach of Human (Naural) Rights close on March 23, 2012.

For further information, contact Sharon McCrindle on 02 8204 4175.

Women and girls lifted high in global prayer

By Robert Hiini ST PAUL’S Catholic Church in Mr Lawley celebrated a worldwide moment for Christian women and girls on 2 March.

Parish Priest Fr Timothy Deeter, members of the St Paul’s Catholic parish, girls and boys from St Paul’s Primary School, and visitors joined together, expressing their solidarity in prayer.

Several girls dressed in the traditional dress of their heritage homelands, joining in a procession which also featured St Paul’s students holding aloft the flags of the congregation’s countries of origin.

The World Day of Prayer is a worldwide movement of Christian women of many traditions who come together to observe a common day of prayer each year.

It is a day - the first Friday in March - when coordinated services of Christian worship and prayer are held across the world in over 170 countries, directed by the international body – the World

Day of Prayer International. The programme for the celebration was prepared by women from a focus country of the world.

The 2012 World Day of Prayer was celebrated on Friday, 2 March and prepared by the women of Malaysia with the theme “Let Justice Prevail”.

The event is an ecumenical one and organisers have estimated that over the past six years the World Day of Prayer service was translated into more than 90 languages, and experienced by over 16 million participants Women in Canada and the US who committed themselves in the 19th century to missionary endeavours abroad created the vision that led to an inter-denominational prayer service practice in the 20th century.

In 1926, North American women distributed the worship service to many countries, but 1927 marks the first official World Day of Prayer in countries around the globe.

www.worlddayofprayeraustralia.org

Girls in traditional dress join in the ecumenical World Day of Prayer for women and girls.

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MILESTONES

moments past, passing and to come

Sister Philomena... is worth her weight in gold

By Robert Hiini

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I ST E R PH I LOM E NA Burrell wanted to be a teacher from a very young age.

It is a career she has fulfilled and enjoyed throughout her life; a career that has included teaching primary, secondary and tertiary students, and now, as the Director of the Maranatha Centre, adults in faith formation.

Sr Philomena’s Golden Jubilee was marked with two celebrations – one, a thanksgiving Mass and lunch on the anniversary of her profession on January 9 and the other a Mass and supper at Maranatha’s Newman Sienna Centre in Doubleview on February 17. Archbishop Barry Hickey was the main celebrant at the Mass, concelebrated by four other priests, at Corpus Christi Church

in Mosman Park, and attended by Presentation Sisters, family members and friends. Lunch at Iona Boarding College followed with

Everyone who spoke attested to the way Sister Philomena had enriched the lives of countless individuals. much reminiscing. At the second celebration, Maranatha staff took the opportunity to acknowledge and congratulate Sr Philomena.

Father Charles Waddell, Claremont parish priest, along with 30 guests, celebrated the Eucharist, during

which Fr Charles gave Sr Philomena a special blessing.

During the evening, two Maranatha lecturers (Dr Michelle Jones and Stephanie Woods), two course attendees (Mandy Varley and Graham Rose) and two Maranatha office staff (Tracy Stevens and Bill Bellair) each paid tribute to Sr Philomena’s leadership, energy and generosity.

Everyone who spoke attested to the way Sister had enriched the lives of countless individuals and had deepened their faith with her gentle skills. Sr Philomena was presented with a bouquet of flowers, ‘toasted’ and invited to cut a specially prepared cake. Sister kept everyone entertained with various light-hearted recollections of events that had occurred during her time spent in the classroom.

Sister Philomena celebrates her Golden Jubilee, which was attended by Archbishop Barry Hickey, by cutting the cake.

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Childhood memories of convent life

By Mike Berson CONVENT life began for me in Narrogin in 1942 not long after my fifth birthday.

My sister Diane and my three brothers Des, Gerald and Redmond soon followed.

On my first day, my friend Jimmy Lalor and I were ushered through the side gate by our mothers to lineup outside the infants’ classroom.

Inside, we sat on long benches, six children each and looked up to our teacher, Sister Ildephonsus, who stood straight and tall at the front of the sparsely decorated room.

She wore the full, all-enveloping habit of the Order of the Sacred Heart. I can still picture her face clearly - friendly blue eyes, a slightly beaked nose and a hint of determination in her chin.

I do not think I could have had a better first teacher than Sister Ildephonsus. We responded to her ready smile and we were eager to please her.

She was my teacher again in Year Two and that hint of firm resolve I had read in her face came home to me during spelling lessons.

Her method was simple and effective. We were taught a list of words by the usual methods and then came out to her desk to be tested. For each error we received a brisk rap on the knuckles with the edge of a wooden ruler.

I caught on to the system very quickly and became an expert speller in no time.

Outside in the playground I continued to learn. My schoolmate Bernice Giles had a new, two-wheeler bicycle with 20-inch wheels, which I grabbed to race around the playground in the morning.

Billy Stevens, a strong silent type even then, who later married Bernice, stopped me, delivered sharp punch to my nose and returned the bicycle to her.

This was my first lesson in private property.

Over the next two years our classes were held in an old house and taught by a proud Irish woman, Mother Lawrence. She had a strong brogue and a quick temper.

We could divert her from our lessons quite readily by asking her to tell us again about growing up on her father’s farm in County Cork.

Her face would soften, her brogue would grow richer and she would gently leave us for up to twenty

A group photo of the Narrogin altar boys in 1949.

minutes at a time.

Self-esteem was not heard of in those days but I must have had an excess of it and Mother Lawrence made it her mission to bring it down a notch.

She also applied these efforts to Keith MacPherson, who on one afternoon, had decided he had enough of school and attempted to escape the classroom through the only means necessary - out one of the low sash open windows in the classroom.

Mother Lawrence smartly brought down the window, trapping him across the sill and soundly whacked the half of him that remained in the room.

These were the war years but I do not have many memories of the war’s impact on Narrogin.

My one clear recollection is of a four-engine Lancaster bomber -huge, thunderous and threatening - flying over the school at about 500 feet.

Children with relatives fighting in New Guinea had mementoes to display at school; items ranging from small bomb casings to jewellery made from perspex and aluminium salvaged from aircraft wreckages.

Cars in the area had black metal hoods on their headlights and some farmer’s cars had fuel-saving gas producers fixed above the rear bumper.

The school had slit trenches along the fences and although I was not aware of their function, I did not like the grave-like mounds of clay alongside them.

In the playground, we repeat-

The school had slit trenches along the fences and although I was not aware of their function, I did not like the grave-like mounds of clay alongside them. ed some slightly obscene doggerel about Hitler, Himmler and Goebbels, without being certain who they were, but happy to have licence to use words we would normally be cuffed for speaking.

My mother attended the Sacred Heart Convent in Highgate and was a strong supporter of the nuns. She

PHOTO: COURTESY MIKE BENSON

could always be called upon for help.

One of the few occasions I saw my mother cry was a Monday washing day. After dutifully boiling, rinsing and wringing the household linen she began to hang the sheets out on the line while I spoke to her. A clothes prop slipped and the whole wash dropped into the dirt beneath the line.

In our fifth year at school, I was in awe of my latest classroom at the rear of the main Convent building.

The cool, dark rooms with their highly polished floors, lead-light windows and all-pervasive smell of Relax polish are still in my mind today.

After class, the music rooms’ calm afternoon silence was shattered with stammering piano scales and tormented violins.

Laurie Evans was the first in our class to play the violin and he played it badly.

We had reached the age we were eligible to serve as altar boys at daily Mass. We were coached in the Latin responses, which had little meaning to us but rose and fell in cadences and were very pleasing to the ear.

We rose in the dark, splashed our faces with cold water and arrived

at the church on our bikes as the “butcher birds” were tuning up for the dawn chorus.

Quickly, we got to know the idiosyncrasies of each parish priest. Fr John Russell was neat, alert and a friendly man. He was a friend of my dad and occasionally asked him to place a bet on the trots for him and enjoyed his yarns.

Dad told him of one of his predecessors who, when new to the town, signed up with Railways Football Club. An Aboriginal member of the team observed the new priest making a quick sign of the cross just before the first bound and asked dad, “will that do him any good, Charlie?”

“Not unless he can play football,” muttered dad as he headed off into the fray.

Fr Russell was replaced by Fr Maurice Giles who was built like a rugby forward with a hair-trigger temper.

Every dropped missal, kicked bell and forgotten Latin response was followed by a warning rumble and, after leaving the altar in solemn procession, we often ducked in newly-found unison to avoid a boxed ear.

I left the Narrogin Convent aged 12 to go to school in Perth and returned to Narrogin seven years later to teach at the State school and remember how mildly surprised I was that, in this large mass of nonCatholic children, there were so few of them obviously bound for Hell.

I think my years of a tender childhood in a convent have had much effect on my adult life.

The nuns were, above all, firstclass English teachers who gave us the love of the written and spoken language, a respect for its rules and conventions and the confidence to use it easily.

I think they helped form our social outlook and made us sturdy egalitarians.

The nuns had a quiet disrespect for the power and pomp of the State, giving their allegiance to higher authority, and inspired a little anarchy in each of us.

Of course, things have changed since then.

Some years ago I attended a dinner after an education conference and found myself dancing with Sr Loretta, principal of a large NSW primary school.

“Call me Loretta,” my partner said.

“Not a chance, Sister Conroy!” said I.

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Patrick Dillon takes a back pew

By Deacon Dick Scallan Chairman, Bunbury Parish Finance Committee

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ATRICK Dillon has decided to take a back pew from active involvement in the Finance Committee of St Patricks Cathedral parish. Mr Dillon’s decision comes after almost fifty years of active involvement in the affairs of the parish.

Mr Dillon moved to Bunbury at the age of sixteen and originally came from Dardanup. He was born into an Irish pioneer family of seven siblings, of which six survive. The eldest being a Sister of Mercy, Sr Roberta, Margaret, James (deceased), Tom, Cathie, Pat with John being the youngest.

Mr Dillon’s involvement started as a member of the Young Christian Workers (YCW). The YCW is an organisation which had a balanced mixture of the spiritual and social activities under the direction of a nominated priest chaplain. The YCW met weekly for a function or organised event. The prime purpose of the YCW was the formation of young Catholic laity.

Under the guidance of the YCW committee including Father Kevin Johnston, full time worker Stephanie O’Connell (deceased) and Pat organised the first YCW Annual Ball at the rowing club and the decorations were outstanding.

The ball was alcohol-free and bus loads of young people attended.

However, next morning all attended Holy Mass together in the Cathedral followed by lunch at

Wellington Dam. Mr Dillon was elected to the YCW Diocesan Council and the highlight was being selected as a delegate from the diocese together with Stephanie O’Connell (deceased) and others to attend the YCW Australia wide National Conference held in Bendigo that lasted a week and was attended by twenty Archbishops, bishops and priests.

Mr Dillon met Bev at one of the YCW functions and a romance grew. They were married in the old St Patrick’s Cathedral on October

He may be stepping down from active involvement but he reassures us he will always be available.

5, 1968. The marriage was blessed with four children: David, Gregory, Joanne and Stephen. To date there are nine grandchildren.

Mr Dillon has been an active member of the Knights of the Southern Cross since 1968.

He was a member of the Parish Councils in Bunbury and Albany over the years and on the Finance Committee. Pat was involved with the initial Planned Giving Wells Campaign and the monthly Catholic Men’s Dinners as the convenor.

Mr Dillon managed to get

John Howard and Alan Bond as speakers. Over two hundred men would attend these dinners at the Lighthouse Hotel, including the bishop, many of the priests and also many non Catholics.

He represented the Parish Finance Committee on the Cathedral Project Fund Raising Committee, and was a member of the Cathedral Dedication and Opening Masses Organising Committees.

Mr Dillon’s service activities were not restricted to parish affairs.

He was an active member in the Retail Traders Association and the Chamber of Commerce. Mr Dillon served as one of the twelve original members of the Planning Committee ahead of Bunbury becoming a city in 1979. He was personally instrumental in lobbying and getting one of the first Qantas Jumbo Jets named “The City of Bunbury” and the story and pictures into the pages of “Woman’s Weekly” ‘ Mr Dillon started work at sixteen as a messenger boy at a local pharmacy opposite the Rose Hotel. He then became a junior assistant at Haywards which became Boans. Mr Dillon worked in electrical retail for Archie Martin Vox and lastly held the franchise of Bunbury Harvey Norman for ten years before retiring in 2008.

Pat might be stepping down from the active involvement; however he reassures us he will always be available if we need his assistance or advice. Well done Mr Dillon, thank you and “multos annos”

Cardinal Jose Sanchez leaves legacy of ministry

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ARDINAL Jose Sanchez, who once served as prefect of the Congregation for Clergy at the Vatican, died March 9 aged 91.

Cardinal Sanchez died of natural causes at the Cardinal Santos Memorial Medical Centre, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines reported on its website.

A priest for 65 years, Cardinal Sanchez was the fifth Filipino to be named a cardinal.

Archbishop Jose Palma of Cebu, president of the Philippines bishops’ conference, described Cardinal Sanchez as a “prelate of passionate love. He loved God and loved the Church with joy and dedication.”

Through his various capacities at the Vatican and in his homeland, Cardinal Sanchez’s zeal was exemplary, Archbishop Palma said.

“He left a legacy of ministry worthy of emulation and a source of pride for us Filipinos,” he said.

Cardinal Sanchez was born on March 17, 1920 in Pandan, Philippines. He was ordained to the priesthood May 12, 1946.

At the age of 47 in 1968, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Caceres.

Three years later, he was named coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Lucena and succeeded Bishop Alfred Mario Obviar in September 1976.

He was appointed archbishop of the Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia in January 1982 and was elevated to cardinal by Pope John Paul II in June 1991.

Cardinal Sanchez left his native Philippines in 1985 after Pope John

Cardinal Jose Sanchez, who once served as prefect of the Congregation for Clergy at the Vatican, died at age 91 on March 9.

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Paul named him secretary of the Congregation of the Evangelisation of Peoples.

He served in the post until being named prefect of the Congregation for Clergy in July 1991. He resigned from the position in June 1996.

The cardinal also served as

president of the Commission for Preservation of Artistic and Historic Patrimony of the Church from 1991 to 1993.

Cardinal Sanchez’s body was taken to the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd in Quezon City on March 10.

Mr Patrick Dillon has given years of service, not restricted to parish affairs but his whole community.

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DeMelo appointed leading newspaper’s editor-in-chief JEANETTE DeMelo, outgoing communications director for the Denver Archdiocese and general manager of the Denver Catholic Register, said she loves “the creativity involved in Catholic publishing and journalism.”

She looks forward to her new job as editor-in-chief of the National Catholic Register, effective in June, and to remaining part of the Register’s “legacy of excellent journalism.”

“I’m honoured and challenged by the opportunity to join the team and continue that legacy,” she added.

The National Catholic Register is the oldest national Catholic newspaper in the country.

It was founded in 1927 by Monsignor Matthew Smith as the national edition of the Denver Catholic Register, itself founded in 1905.

“There’s a back-to-the-future feeling because the National Catholic Register was born out of the Denver Catholic Register,” DeMelo said. “I’m grateful for that little connection.”

“Jeanette’s background in church communications and media relations will provide a unique perspective to the Register,” said Michael Warsaw, publisher of the National Catholic Register and President and CEO of the Eternal Word Television Network.

“We currently have a great team in place and Jeanette will further strengthen our capabilities,” he added in a statement on February

28 announcing her new position.

DeMelo will fill a position vacant since EWTN’s acquisition of the Register from the Legionaries of Christ in February 2011.

During her tenure in the Denver Archdiocese since 2005, DeMelo also served as the archdiocese’s official media spokeswoman and general manager for the Spanishlanguage El Pueblo Catolico newspaper and the archdiocesan website.

She is credited for guiding the Denver Catholic Register through the transition from mail delivery to the current carrier-delivery system, reducing production costs by more than $200,000 in the first year and a half; establishing the “Join the Mission” voluntary subscription campaign, which has garnered nearly $60,000 in its first three years; and directing the redesign of the archdiocese’s website to enhance its online presence.

“I’ll greatly miss the team I’ve worked with for the past several years,” she said.

“We’ve grown together and have had many successes ... I’ve come in touch with so many wonderful people and so many good works in the Catholic community in northern Colorado.”

DeMelo, who will continue in her current position through May, served as an adviser to Archbishop Charles Chaput when he headed the Denver Archdiocese from 1997 to 2011.

Philadelphia Archbishop Chaput said Jeanette has a great grasp of the National Catholic Register’s legacy.

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CROSSING THE LINE Practice of the Faith in Catholic Mexico is a contradiction where criminals pray and traffic drugs, few attend church regularly and social transformation is not evident, writes David Agren of CNS.

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R E SI DE N T Felip e Calderon came to this border city to boast of improvements in public safety and witness the destruction of a cache of illegal guns, grenades and ammunition which he blamed for contributing to more than 10,000 deaths in Ciudad Juarez since 2008.

He also received an inadvertent reminder of some of the extreme expressions of faith in Mexico when an army colonel showed him a sample of the assembled arsenal: pistols plated in gold and silver and engraved with images of saints and Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Professions of piety are common and diverse in Mexico, where a quasi-religious drug cartel teaches from its own text and downtrodden venerate pseudo-saints such as Santa Muerte (St Death), and Our Lady of Guadalupe and her role in Mexican life and history form part of the national identity, even in a country with an official secular ethos and government.

In a country where 84 per cent of 2010 census respondents identified themselves as Catholic, questions arise over the commitment of Mexicans to a faith that has played a defining role throughout their nation's history, from the Spanish conquest and evangelisation to the independence movement promoted by Father Miguel Hidalgo to the 1920s Cristero Rebellion

Children play on the shores on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande at the border crossing in Ciudad Juarez.

against anti-clerical laws. Auxiliary Bishop Victor Rodriguez Gomez of Texcoco, secretary-general of the Mexican bishops' conference, told Catholic News Service dioceses across the country have worked

to promote catechism classes and ministries with a missionary focus.

He estimates between 10 and 20 per cent of Catholics are committed church-goers and involved in parish life.

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"There's a large group of people that participate sporadically in Church life," he said, even though they bring "a great religiosity."

This common form of professing the Catholic faith in a sporadic,

yet seemingly pious way, perplexes Church leaders and religious observers who point to a disconnect in the way so many Mexicans identify themselves as Catholic but fail to bring Church teaching into their daily lives.

The disconnect is especially visible in the ways corruption, income inequalities and violence have been common in a heavily Catholic country.

"The religious expression ... is not very connected to a commitment to social transformation," said Victor Ramos Cortes, a professor at the University of Guadalajara.

"A person can go to Mass but be a thief, or be unfair with the people around them."

Or be a drug dealer.

Cartel kingpins have made donations known as narcolimosnas, or drug alms, which have built and repaired churches, including a chapel in the state of Hidalgo, bearing a plaque thanking the generosity of Los Zetas founder Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano.

The mixture of the criminals and Church seems improbable, but it makes sense in the Mexican context, said Ramos.

"There's very little relationship between symbolic religious practices and daily living," he said.

Over the past five years, conflicts among drug cartels, criminal gangs and the Mexican military have left more than 45,000 people dead, yet

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Rather than our temporary lives, focus on the permanence of God Lent is a wonderful opportunity to confront and subdue those elements in our lives that can hinder our spiritual progress on the journey to God's kingdom.

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Top left: A man joins hundreds praying for peace in Mexico during Mass in Monterrey. Above: Jesus Hernandez mourns his son, 15 year old Sergio, killed by a US border patrol agent after a group trying to illegally enter the US threw rocks at agents at an international bridge near downtown El Paso, Texas.

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many of those involved in the conflicts are baptised Catholics.

Bishop Raul Vera Lopez of Saltillo considers such figures proof that the Church has fallen short in its pastoral work.

He expressed frustration with the Church's inability to draw the faithful into the parishes for more than just special occasions and provide ongoing training that would produce laypeople ready to play productive roles in Mexican public life.

"The administration of sacraments is when (priests) give a little formation to lay members," Bishop Vera said.

The Church role in Mexican public life has been polemic for decades as Church and state were officially estranged and anti-clerical laws limited priests to nothing more than preaching spiritual matters inside authorised houses of worship.

Bishop Rodriguez said these restraints prevented priests from fulfilling a more communitarian and social vision for the Church like that encouraged by the Second Vatican Council.

The less cordial period of the Cristero Rebellion led to the closing of churches and seminaries, altering the way the Catholic faith was practised in Mexico.

This led people to follow the

faith in their own way and develop a sort of "homemade religion," said Fr Robert Coogan, an American priest in Saltillo and diocesan prison chaplain.

"The way Catholicism has stayed alive in Mexico is through the rosary, not Mass," he said, explaining that most of the people he serves consider themselves Catholic but

The relationship between "symbolic religious practices and daily living" in Mexico is very slight. only attend church for things like baptisms and weddings.

"They don't see Mass as part of their Catholic identity."

Fr Coogan sees devotion in the inmates he works with and neighbours in the subdivision surrounding the prison in Saltillo, an industrial city 360km from the border with Laredo, Texas.

Much of the devotion is informal, however.

Behind bars, Fr Coogan estimates fewer than 25 per cent of inmates attend Mass but more than half of them come to pray - daily.

"Do they have a relationships with God? I say they do," he said of the inmates. But Fr Coogan added, "I haven't found a way to make the sacramental life of the Church important to them."

Informal expressions of faith date back decades and even centuries as evangelisation in Mexico often involved some adapting of Catholicism to existing pre-Hispanic customs.

These informal expressions are often known as "religion popular" (people's religion).

One popular expression is the skeletal-looking Santa Muerte, which Fr Coogan says is venerated by 40 per cent of the prisoners in Saltillo and is looked to for miracles.

That search for miracles is common in Mexico, along with shortterm thinking, Ramos said.

That thinking, he said, is shared by criminals and their targets, who seek protection and intervention from the same source - sometimes Santa Muerte.

"The Catholic religion, mixed with the indigenous perspective ... results in a sort of magic thinking," Ramos said.

"At the end of the day, I'm not responsible; rather, if I invoke something magical, some rite, I'll be saved in some way."

HE more at home we feel in this world, the further we are from our true home in heaven. St Paul was so convinced of this that he described himself as a citizen of God's kingdom.

But we should not despair if we do not have the conviction of Paul, because we are all at varying stages of the same journey – the journey toward knowing, without reservation, that our life on earth is only a transit lounge on the way to our final destination.

But even Paul, with his passion and willingness to lay down his life, was well aware of the earthly hurdles that hindered his path to heaven. He told the Philippians that he had not reached perfection in his own “race” but was continuously striving toward the finish line.

As Christians, we need to be continuously reminded that we are competing against ourselves in a race toward this heavenly prize. Paul even provides us with a tip on how we can make this race easier: “Throw off everything that weighs us down and the sin that clings so closely and, with perseverance, keep running in the race which lies ahead of us” (Hebrews 12:1).

It is not just sin therefore that separates us from God. Paul says that there is sin AND there are those things that weigh us down. So what are these anchors that hold us to this earth?

I believe that St Francis of Assisi shared Paul's depth of spiritual awareness. His life after conversion was a neverending search for a deeper relationship with God. He considered anything that drew him away from this heavenly goal as a weight impeding his journey.

When he was repulsed by the thought of leprosy, he made himself kiss a leper.

When fleshly desires would cause his thoughts to be selffocused, he was said to have thrown himself naked into the snow. He embraced poverty and simplicity because he knew that, for him, materialism represented an anchor in his own race.

That is the beauty of Lent and the call to fasting. It is a time when we can reflect on where we are in our own race.

What are the weights that are handicapping our own push forward? Most of us may never be called to seek the depths of submission of St Francis, but I believe we are all called to replicate his desire.

I say I say

By Mark Reidy

That is why we should see Lent as a time of self-analysis – a time to re-focus our spiritual compass. What is the first thought I have when I get up in the morning? What dominates my attention throughout the day? What shackles me to this temporary world and draws my attention from God? The answers will differ for each one of us, as we are all at a unique stage of our own race.

For one it may be caffeine, for another heroin or chocolate or pornography or materialism or the internet or sexual gratification or the approval of others.

The variety and gravity of what

St Francis "embraced poverty and simplicity because he knew that, for him, materialism represented an anchor in his own race". can distract us from a deeper intimacy with God is almost endless.

It is an individual journey that is between ourselves and our Creator. It is why Lent should be a time when we embrace self-sacrifice as a way to starve to death those elements that hinder our spiritual momentum.

And that is why we should not allow ourselves to get too comfortable in this life – because comfort has a tendency to turn our gaze inward and not toward the finish line ahead.

If our sacrifices do not hurt, then we are not pulling them out by the roots and they will continue to dwell within us.

Our intention should be to kill off that part of ourselves that is self-serving and that process will never be comfortable.

But it is not a message of gloom that St Paul gives us, but rather it is a journey toward freedom, because as we relinquish the power of our own desires we will gain a clearer picture of our true destiny.

Perhaps one day we will even understand why St Paul and St Francis found true joy in living their lives as a perpetual Lent.

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YEAR ago I wrote about the gender imbalance in parts of Asia (particularly China) and the danger it could lead to increased nationalism and war in that part of the world. Late last year, Nicholas Eberstadt, who holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, published an article in the Autumn 2011 edition of The New Atlantis, provocatively entitled “The Global War Against Baby Girls”. In it, he details shocking statistics from various parts of the world that show the results of sex-selective feticide. The ability to determine the sex of a baby before birth is now widespread, as

is the ability to abort that baby if the parents so wish. These abilities have resulted in what Eberstadt describes as: “… an ominous and entirely new form of gender discrimination: sexselective feticide ... In terms of its sheer toll in human numbers, sexselective abortion has assumed a scale tantamount to a global war against baby girls.”

Come now, surely it isn’t that bad? A global war? Those dreadful things kill millions don’t they? Well: “The practice has become so ruthlessly routine in many contemporary societies that it has impacted their very population structures, warping the balance between male and female births and consequently skewing

sex ratios for the rising generation toward a biologically unnatural excess of males. This still-growing international predilection for sexselective abortion is by now evident in the demographic contours of dozens of countries ... and is sufficiently severe that it has come to alter the overall sex ratio at birth of the entire planet, resulting in millions upon millions of new ‘missing baby girls’ each year.”

First of all, Eberstadt looks at the “missing” girls in China (a nice euphemism, as if we have just misplaced them somewhere, rather than deliberately aborting them).

He starts by explaining there is a regular relationship between numbers of male and female births in the human population: the sex ratio

at birth (SRB) for large populations generally falls within a narrow range of 103-106 boys for every 100 girls. Thus, there is a naturally occurring slight “oversupply” of boys at birth. One of the founders of demography, German priest and statistician Johann Peter Süssmilch, argued in 1741 that: “The Creator’s reasons for ensuring four to five per cent more boys than girls are born lie in the fact that it compensates for higher male losses due to the recklessness of boys, to exhaustion, dangerous occupations, war, seafaring and immigration; thus maintaining the balance between the two sexes so everyone can find a spouse at the appropriate time for marriage.”

However, in China, this natu-

rally occurring oversupply has grown alarmingly. In 1982, China was reporting a nationwide SRB of 108.5; by 1995, this had grown to 115.6 and by 2005 a “mini-census” of 1 per cent of the population was reporting an SRB of 118.9. This divergence between the number of boys and girls is even wider if the scope is extended to the population under five years old. In 2005, the ratio for this cohort was 122.7. So, not only are more boys being born in China than girls, more of them are surviving infancy. Eberstadt recognises these figures are not 100 per cent accurate but maintains they are still indicative of a disturbing trend: “Although, as recently noted in a study by Daniel Goodkind in the

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second best ratios are still being reported in China today. only three provinces reported “normal” SRBs while two (Anhui and Shaanxi) reported SRBs above 130.

Eberstadt provides a map of China illustrating the sex imbalance in the 0-4 year age cohort in the year 2000. What it shows is a marked regional variation: “… sex ratios are essentially ‘normal’ (105 or lower) in much of Western China and along parts of the country’s northern border — areas where non-Han ethnic minorities predominate — while unnatural gender imbalances characterise virtually the entirety of the Han-majority areas in China’s east and south. There are tremendous variations in the extremity of the condition within this Han expanse: a number of inland and coastal areas stand out as epicentres of the problem and are marked by concentrations of counties, each encompassing millions or tens of millions of people, wherein child sex ratios of 150 or greater prevail.”

When broken down by birth order, Eberstadt’s research sheds more light: while SRBs for firstborn children remains within the “normal” range of around 105, in 2005 the SRBs for second births was 143 and for third births was 156.

Why is there this massive difference between firstborn Chinese children and their younger siblings?

“An influential 2006 Harvard dissertation by Emily Oster hypothesised that the emerging gender imbalances in China and elsewhere were primarily a consequence of the spread of the hepatitis B virus, known to skew SRBs in favour of male babies in maternal carriers — but clearly that theory cannot account for the extraordinary and continuing disparities between first births and higher-order births in China. Instead, it is by now widely recognised that these gender disparities are the consequence of parental intervent i on — n a m e l y, mass feticide through the agency of medically induced abortion and prenatal gender determination technology. Chinese parents appear to have been generally willing to rely upon biological chance for the sex outcome of their first baby — but with increasing frequency they have been relying upon healthcare technology and services to ensure any second- or higher-order baby would be a boy.”

So why are Chinese SRBs so imbalanced? Eberstadt dismisses the argument that it is due to “backward” thinking in China for the following reasons: High SRBs are almost entirely a Han phenomenon within China.

Han Chinese are generally better educated and more affluent than non-Han minorities; Although SRBs are higher in rural than urban areas, this has more to do with rural areas’ higher fertility levels – there

are more second and third pregnancies in rural China and these tend to be overwhelmingly male. There has been an extraordinary surge in development and prosperity in China during the same period that its SRB has become so imbalanced.

Between 1982 and 2005, female illiteracy dropped from 25 to 4 per cent, the mean years of schooling for Chinese women rose by nearly 50 per cent, estimated per capita income jumped nearly fivefold and the fraction of population living in extreme poverty dropped from 75 to roughly 15 per cent.

Finally, China is far more open to the outside world today than it was in the early 1980s (as shown by statistics on international trade, investment, finance to travel and communications).

Thus, to say China’s SRB figures are due to its “backwardness” and lack of education and wealth is not backed up by the statistics. No doubt a lot of it has to do with the Chinese One Child policy but China is not the only country in the world to have a large SRB imbalance. While China has had the one child policy for the last 30 odd years, Eberstadt’s article makes it clear that is not the only reason for a marked preference for boy babies: “… coercive family planning prog r ammes are neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for widespread female feticide. This much is evident from SRB trends in East Asia’s four “Little Dragons”: Hong Kong, Singapore (more specifically, Singapore’s ethnic Chinese), South Korea and Taiwan. All those societies maintain voluntary family planning programmes — nevertheless, each of them has registered eerie increases in SRBs in the era of unconditional abortion and widespread access to inexpensive obstetric ultrasonography.”

By the beginning of the 21st century, SRBs in Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan were 108 or higher and typically lowest for first born babies, and elevated for subsequent births. Eberstadt points to a similarity between these societies: “One commonality to China and the Little Dragons is a Confucian cultural heritage which places an imperative on continuing a family’s lineage through a male heir as a metaphysical key to greater universal harmony and virtue. It is noteworthy that Japan, an East Asian society without a strong Confucian tradition but with easy access to abortion and obstetric ultrasonography and with very low fertility rates, just as in China and the four Little Dragon, has always reported a sex ratio at birth well within human biological norms.”

The Creator ensures a balance between the two sexes so everyone can find a spouse for marriage.

journal Demography, there remain some discrepancies and inconsistencies among data sources (census numbers, vital registration reports, hospital delivery records, school enrolment figures and so on) concerning China’s SRBs and child sex ratios over the past two decades, there is absolutely no doubt that shockingly distorted sex ratios for newborns and children prevail in China today and these gender imbalances have increased dramatically during the decades of the One Child Policy.”

When the data is broken down within China, it shows the SRB is higher in rural areas than in cities. Thus, in 2005, the SRB was 123 for rural areas, 120 for towns and 115 for cities. At the regional level,

This article continues next week.

Marcus Roberts teaches contract law at Auckland University.

Dear Father, I have often heard people speak of the seven sorrows and joys of St Joseph, but I don’t know anything about them. Can you tell me anything about this devotion?

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HE devotion of the seven sorrows and joys of St Joseph is traditional in the Church. It may have its origin in the following story which is often recounted in relating the history of the devotion.

It seems that two Franciscan fathers were once aboard a ship sailing along the coast of Flanders when a great storm arose, sinking the ship with its three hundred passengers. The two Franciscans seized hold of a plank and clung to it for three days, tossed on the waves and fearing for their lives. All this time they begged St Joseph to save them.

A young man of good appearance then appeared to them and encouraged them to trust in him, as he led them safely into a harbour. When they asked his name, he told them he was St Joseph, and advised them to recite the Our Father and Hail Mary seven times each day, in memory of his seven sorrows and seven joys. Then he disappeared.

Whether or not the story is authentic, the devotion of the seven sorrows and joys has deep roots. It consists in reciting seven prayers, each referring to one of the sorrows and joys, followed by an Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory be to the Father. The wording of these prayers varies from one version to another, but they all mention the same sorrows and joys.

The first is St Joseph’s immense sorrow on discovering that Our Lady is carrying a child which he knows is not his, and his decision to separate from her whom he loves so much (cf Mt 1:18-19). The corresponding joy comes when an angel appears to him in a dream and tells him, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit” (Mt 1:20).

Overjoyed, St Joseph takes Mary as his wife.

The second sorrow comes when St Joseph considers that Jesus is to be born in the poverty of a stable and laid in a manger, a feeding trough for animals (cf Lk 2:7). His sorrow turns to joy when he sees the Son of God born in the flesh and the wise men come to worship him, offering him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh (cf Mt 2:11).

St Joseph’s third sorrow comes eight days after Jesus’ birth when he sees the blood flowing during the circumcision. This is followed by his

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By Fr John Flader great joy when the child is given the name Jesus, “the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb” (cf Lk 2:21).

The fourth sorrow and joy come during the presentation of Jesus in the temple, forty days after his birth. The sorrow is the prophecy of Simeon that a sword would pierce Mary’s heart, and the joy is Simeon’s saying that the child would bring about the rising of many in Israel (cf Lk 2:35).

The fifth sorrow, a great one indeed, is the message to Joseph from an angel in a dream to take Our Lady

St Joseph advised them to recite the Our Father and Hail Mary seven times each day, in memory of his seven sorrows and seven joys. and Jesus and flee into Egypt because Herod wants to kill the child (cf Mt 2:13). Joseph responds to this message by rising while it is still night and beginning immediately the journey into Egypt. The joy comes with the arrival of the Son of God in Egypt, signifying the superseding or overthrowing of the idols which had been worshipped there.

The sixth is after some time in Egypt, an angel appeared to Joseph and told him that those who sought Jesus’ life are dead and that he can return to Israel. “But when he heard that Archelaus reigned over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream he withdrew to the district of Galilee” (Mt 12:22).

This fear is the sixth sorrow and the corresponding joy is the arrival of the Holy Family safely in Nazareth, fulfilling the prophecy, “He shall be called a Nazarene” (Is 11:1; Mt 2:23).

The seventh sorrow is the loss of Jesus in the temple in Jerusalem at the age of twelve, and the joy is finding him again after three days (cf Lk 2:41-51).

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AMAL Salman stood on one side of the double chainlink fence, on land belonging to his family. On the other side of the Israeli-erected fences, only a few hundred yards away but beyond his reach, was more family land with a grove of olive trees.

In November, Salman and more than 180 Bethlehem landowners were informed that Israel had placed their olive groves, more than 1700 acres of land located beyond the barrier, under the Guardian of Absentee Property, deeming the owners of these lands as “absentees.” This is the last step before formal confiscation.

“I stand here ... and I can look onto my land over the fence as an absentee (property owner),” Salman said, pointing across the fences to the trees. The last time he was permitted through the barrier to work his olive grove was 2009.

The 73-year-old is leading a campaign of mostly Christian landowners in an attempt to prevent yet more of their land from being confiscated. They are considering challenging the absentee decision in the Israeli Supreme Court, he said.

The expropriation of land is not a new story here, said Salman, a Catholic and former town manager of Bethlehem.

After Israel built the separation barrier in 2002, farmers were not allowed to cross through the fence to the valley to reach their olive groves. Salman was left with only 301 square metres of land, while the other 1304 square metres of his property was confiscated and now lies on the other side of the barrier, he said.

“These lands used to earn us and our families a lot of money,” from the olive oil produced from the olives, he said. “We also got our own olives and olive oil from there.

We lost everything.”

After the farmers’ case was taken to the Supreme Court by Israeli human rights lawyer Danny Seidmann, the court ruled that gates be built into the series of double fences and special permits be issued to the farmers during harvest time so they could have access to their property.

In addition, said Seidmann, in 2004 he was given a written understanding from government officials that landowners would be given access to their land. A year later the attorney general’s office also ruled it illegal to use the Law of Absentee Property against West Bank residents whose land was located on the Israeli side of the barrier.

But the reality was different. The gates were opened only at specific times and the farmers were issued permits to access their lands only three times since 2005, said the landowners.

The permits were given only to the person to whom the land is registered, all of whom are now in their 60s, 70s and 80s. No other members of the families were allowed to enter to help with the harvest, said 61-year-old Jallal Hanouna.

Salman said that, since Israel

Above: Palestinian Christians Nabil Handal, 55, and Jamal Salman, 73, walk near the Israeli-erected barrier that divides their olive groves. Below: Palestinian Catholic Karima Sayeg, 79, looks through the branches of an olive tree during the autumn harvest in Bir Zeit.

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took control of the West Bank from Jordan in 1967, Palestinians have been prevented from transferring ownership of property even to their children, so they were unable to transfer land deeds to younger members of the family.

“It is impossible for us to cultivate the land ourselves,” said Salman. “They don’t allow any other relatives or members of our family to help us. They didn’t give us authority to go to our lands, and now they are saying they consider us absentee from our lands which we can see with our own eyes. I am not absentee. I am right here.”

One year, when the farmers were permitted onto their land, they arrived on their property to discover all the olives had already been harvested by someone else, said Hanouna.

Seidmann said it was unclear whether the decision to claim the land under the Law of Absentee Property was simply an attempt by the government to try something illegal during a US election year when the attention in the United States is directed elsewhere, or it has become a government policy.

The Israeli Civil Administration responsible for issuing the permits did not respond to requests for comment.

Hanouna said the land not only represents their future in terms of income from the olive harvest, but also symbolises their ability to provide a future for their children in Bethlehem. Other property parcels threatened are the last remaining land where the city, and specifically Christian residents, can expand,

since Bethlehem is surrounded on all other sides by Israeli settlements, he said.“We feel abandoned by the whole world. We are all Christians.

This is 99 per cent Christian land,”

said Hanouna. “This land was the hope for the Christian people, for our sons to expand. That is all we own.” If there is no room for their children to build their own homes,

the exodus of young people from the city will continue and increase as they seek to make lives for themselves somewhere where they do not feel imprisoned, he said.

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Shopping for Spirituality Dominican Father and former President of a school of theology, Father Antoninus has made the Lloyd Centre Mall his mission.

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MID a thrum of commercialism, an amiable priest spent most of the month of January waiting patiently. His hope was to talk about faith and life with anyone who took an interest.

Dominican Father Antoninus Wall, former President of a school of theology, has made the Lloyd Centre Mall in Portland his mission the past two years. His routine includes five hours at the mall on weekdays and seven hours on Saturdays, listening to people and discussing joy, family life, evil, sin, the role of the laity, sickness, death, humour, morality and scores of other topics.

“When St Paul went to Athens, where was the first place he went?” asked the priest. “The Agora,” he said, referring to the ancient city’s marketplace and civic centre.

The Portland mall is within the bounds of Holy Rosary Parish, staffed by Dominicans, the order of preachers founded in the 13th century to spread the Gospel in newly flourishing European cities and universities.

“St Dominic would be in the marketplace,” 86-year-old Fr Wall said, framed by wandering shoppers and the smell of Cinnabon.

“A parish is not just a place where people come, it’s a basis of evangelisation,” he said.

At the mall, John De Guzman of Portland came to Lloyd Centre one weekday morning and sat

down with the priest for a chat. De Guzman felt curious about Jews and Arabs and got a sensible, respectful treatise from the well-read cleric.

As he listened to those who spoke with him, Fr Wall’s blue eyes looked at them intently and steadily, despite the chaos of the mall.

“This is remarkable,” said De Guzman, a member of Holy Rosary Parish. “I think this is something the Church should be doing everywhere.”

This priest does not wait for people to seek him out: rather, he sits in the shopping centre and is readily available for a chat, some theology and an ear.

Others came to discuss personal problems such as marriage struggles. Fr Wall is as comfortable talking about relationships as he is about Thomas Aquinas. “Millions of people have never talked to a priest in their whole life,” he told the Catholic Sentinel, archdiocesan newspaper of Portland. “They’ve never had the chance.”

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him. “The Catholic faith just makes sense when you sit down and talk about it,” he said.

He was born in San Francisco to parents who had come from Ireland, entered the Dominicans out of high school and, in 1947, was sent to Rome to study theology.

One of his classmates was a young Polish man named Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II. In 1986, after years of teaching, administrating and a little parish work, Fr Wall became a missionary preacher. He has travelled all over the nation and to India. Currently, he is on a preaching mission at St Patrick’s in Fredericksburg for Lent.

In the back of his mind, he long thought the Church should establish a presence in shopping malls, so he commits each January to the Portland mall.

On weekdays, he wore his black clerical garb and sat in a chair across from Macy’s second floor. On Saturdays, he rented a kiosk on the first floor near the ice rink. Ideally, Fr Wall said, the Dominicans would like to raise enough money to have a permanent space where they could offer counselling, Mass and seminars. The priest has published pamphlets on pastoral problems such as terminal illness, the death of a loved one and post-abortion spiritual trauma. Central to all his messages is pointing out God’s abiding task: inviting humanity toward greater love. “Whatever love is in you is part of God’s love,” he said.

NEW university year has just begun and thousands of fresh faces are sitting in lecture halls being prepared to one day step into the world and make their mark in their chosen career path. The necessity of the journey through university and into a well paid career is almost an unspoken law. Yet I wonder if we are placing young people, especially young women, into what will one day be a difficult position that compromises their potential for genuine happiness.

From their earliest years children hear the mantra that men and women are equal, and while they are certainly equal in dignity they are not equal in ability. I do not mean that one sex has more ability than the other; I mean that each sex has a different ability, each sex has different strengths. The complementarity of the sexes is the reason that the natural family of father, mother and children is the best model; it is far better to have a loving father and a loving mother than to have two loving mothers or two loving fathers.

However, preferring to ignore all evidence to the contrary and, in the push to describe gender as no more than a social construct, society tells us that men and women must achieve the same level in all things. If men can drive a tractor, women must be able to drive a tractor; if men can run a corporation, women must be able to run a corporation. It seems to focus though on women being able to achieve in traditionally male roles, not the other way around.

And so with this as the foundation, young women, believing that their happiness is to be found in a successful career path, dedicate some of the best years of their lives to studying law, business and economics. They do well, which is no surprise, and they move out into the workforce with a massive potential to achieve anything on which they set their sights.

But then, as they begin to make real progress in their field, a new challenge approaches … the call to marriage and family. These very talented women were told to make something of themselves through their chosen career path; they have sacrificed and worked as hard, if not harder, than their male counterparts.

In all the talk about being whatever you want to be, no one made much mention of

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By Bernard Toutounji the distinct and unique role of motherhood. Certainly these women sense the importance of raising their children and being good wives and mothers, but they have also invested all their energy, and a great deal of their money, becoming highly educated and a genuine asset to their particular industry.

One recent article attempted to explain why it was that so few women were making it into senior executive positions.

With the average career spanning thirty or so years, the

Motherhood is a respectable and vital role that should not be seen as an afterthought that can automatically attach itself onto a career. article found that five years of ‘career interruption’ due to family responsibilities such as having children, should hardly be a disqualifying penalty. And this idea demonstrates the actual problem; the task of fulltime mothering can supposedly be over within a few short years, allowing the woman to get back to her career with minimal disruption.

While true feminism seeks to uphold the dignity of women and their particular gifts, our secular Western society parades around a false feminism. It is one that makes little girls think they have to be better than boys and women think they need to achieve in all the same fields as men. The truth is that men are not women and women are not men. A successful life is not necessarily one that ‘juggles’ between family and career. Motherhood is a respectable and vital role that should not be seen as an afterthought that can automatically attach itself onto a career. Society would do well to remind its young women of bigger realities rather than pushing them to be like men in all that they do. www.foolishwisdom.com

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It was therefore almost bizarre that when announcing his u-turn on Sunday trading that Mark McGowan described himself as a husband, a father and a man of the suburbs.

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urveying the globe, the world appears to be morphing into one mono-cultural entity. The same looking town centres appear from Santiago to Osaka, from Perth to Stockholm. From Australia to Newfoundland and from southern California to northern Italy, a new uniformity appears to be descending. The same sunglasses, the same hairstyles, the same jeans, the same shoes are worn everywhere. The same songs are hits on the radio. People watch the same police, courtroom, hospital and forensic science dramas on television, all starring the same heroes and heroines. Some might call this symptomatic of a global growth in unity – apparently a good thing.

Spiritually, however, the picture is not really so clear.

The spreading imposition of a mono-culture appears to come at a cost. In modern societies, people are now more alienated from each other, marriage and family breakdown rates have increased with each passing decade, the happiness quotient is falling and in increasing ways, our moral progress fails to keep pace with our technical and scientific capacities. As recently noted in The Record, WA is set to enact laws that can only be described as completely contradictory regarding the presence of unborn human life in the womb. Last week, Record contributor Jing Ping Wong discussed the proposal by two Melbourne-based bioethicists to embrace ‘post-birth abortion’ for infants up to four years of age. All of the above, and much else besides, appears to be related to our progressive abandonment of belief in God and God’s law of love.

In Western Australia another retrograde step is looming, from (unsurprisingly) politicians: the announcement in January by new WA Labor leader Mark McGowan that he would give the green light to Premier Colin Barnett’s campaign for Sunday trading. Beyond the McGowan u-turn is a wider issue of deeper significance: the Party’s embrace of the global mono-culture of capitalism. This is problematic for a number of reasons with, in this instance, one of them being that the first to suffer from Sunday trading will be young workers who will have almost no options left open to them if they are to be employed and build a future for themselves and their families, other than to leave their families on weekends in order to earn a living.

It was almost bizarre that, when announcing his u-turn on Sunday trading, Mr McGowan said: “I come to the job [of Opposition Leader] as a husband and as a dad with three young children. I am a resident of the outer suburbs …”

Presumably Mr McGowan was wearing a politician’s hat but not wearing his thinking cap as a husband and a father when he made his announcement in January which remarkably dovetailed with Mr Barnett’s near obsession with Sunday trading. And yet Sunday tradPO Box 3075 ing is nothing more than an Adelaide Terrace anti-family policy dressed up in PERTH WA 6832 what its supporters believe are terribly cosmopolitan clothes. office@therecord.com.au What else could be better, they Tel: (08) 9220 5900 think, for the quality of life in Fax: (08) 9325 4580 Perth than the ability to shop or drink our decaf low-fat lattes as we please on a sunny Sunday afternoon? The problem is that it comes not so much at a business cost as a social cost to families and young people trying to build a future.

Something that is almost surprisingly problematic with Sunday trading is the way it forces employees to find a reason for not wanting to work on Sunday. Weirdly, it forces those who are not religious at all but who quite understandably do not want to abandon their families on weekends, presumably, to have to come up with religious reasons to avoid work. The simple fact is that employees should not have to produce any reason to refuse work on a Sunday which, since time immemorial, has been a day of rest for families to be together, rest and relax.

Seen in this way, the conflict or clash between the human and personal confines of the family with the brutalism of corporate capitalist business motives and uninformed political policy is clearer.

Sunday trading is also anti-small business, benefiting as it does the massive retail corporate entities who can take advantage of their own economies of scale to compete even more against small business owners who rely for the most part on their own personal resources and those of their families. It is anti-parent and anti-family, impinging even more on the precious weekend time Australian families look forward to as some kind of respite from the pressures of the working week.

Those who will end up being burdened and even exploited by Mr Barnett’s preocuupation and Mr McGowan’s lack of courage are, as usual, not Corporate Australia but Family Australia and Small Business Australia. It indicates that the State’s Government and its supposed Opposition have forgotten how important it is to allow people and families time. One might say the Sabbath is introduced in the biblical account of creation as a time when man is made free for God. On the Sabbath, even slaves were not slaves. But is it now true to say that thanks to Mark McGowan and Premier Barnett, the Sabbath will now be a time when man is freed from the tiresome obligations of family to serve other, more corporate, gods – but once again as a slave?

As usual, Bernard Toutounji’s article (February 29, 2012) makes interesting reading, but I have never seen a crucifix where Christ was without a loin cloth for the simple reason that I believe he actually wore one.

As St John tells us, if everything Jesus did were to be written, the world would not be able to contain all the books which is why so much has come down to us through Tradition and must be the origin in this instance.

However, the venerable mystic Anne Catherine Emmerich (17741803) who had, among other distinctions, the gift of seeing the past, present and future, has given us a heart-wrenching, detailed description of Christ’s crucifixion.

In it, she describes how Christ’s clothes, matted with dried blood, were torn off him by the executioners: He “bent over as if trying to hide himself. As he appeared to swoon in their hands, they set him upon a stone that had been rolled nearby… As they raised him in order to throw him upon the cross… his Blessed Mother prayed earnestly, and was on the point of tearing off her veil and reaching it to him for a covering (when) God heard her prayer,” so that Jonadab, a nephew of St Joseph, was seized by “a sudden and irresistible impulse” and rushed in “among the executioners, and handed Jesus a strip of linen, which he accepted with thanks and wound around himself.”

There is no reason to doubt this particular episode of Catherine Emmerich’s four volume approved revelations. Although Jesus (with Mary) had to experience the utmost human physical suffering and humiliation of the crucifixion, it is surely appropriate that both forms of suffering should have ended with the resurrection, and that the triumphant Second Person of the Trinity should not be for evermore exposed on our altars without a loin cloth.

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Letters to the editor Marriage debate is not a debate at all

THE relentless quest for “gay marriage” is manifestly a campaign in which the gay lobby is yet again playing strident politics. Its pressure tactics are manifest through the media, a militant minority attempting to use the institutions of government to claim perceived rights.

By manipulating decisions of Labor’s ruling elite, the gay collective is able to operate at the very heart of federal politics as it makes an unmandated grab for power.

Section 51(xxi) of the Australian Constitution empowers Parliament to make laws for marriage. The ancient rite, the provenance of which is Genesis (1:27-28), is a concept of wedlock exclusively between male and female. Self-evidently, that sacredness of family is a deeply held religious conviction. What else is the yearly celebration of Christmas?

But in this present instance, the obligation upon Cabinet in a Constitutional Monarchy to adhere to United Nations’ treaties, charters, covenants and conventions which protect parents and children in their traditional role, is also a vitally important public interest issue as well.

This observation is buttressed by the highly relevant fact that “the people” who formed the Australian Commonwealth at Federation, the starting date of which (January 1, 1901) was proclaimed by Queen Victoria on September 17, 1900, did

so “humbly relying on the blessing of Almighty God” and “under the Constitution” thereby established.

(Refer to the first recital in the Preamble to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, July 9, 1900.)

Inherent in the theory of constitutional government is the common legal principal that a power must be exercised in accordance with the purpose of which it was granted. The High Court of Australia, which interprets the Constitution in any case brought before it would need to acknowledge the universal construct of an exclusive male and female relationship for its decisions about marriage to remain coherent.

This is because a tradition of judicial reasoning is compatible with simplistically seeking to decide what is politically correct.

It therefore seems to me the Australian Constitution virtually subscribes to the belief that God is the author of life, who commanded creation’s first couple to “increase and multiply”. Thus from its beginning, that foundation document – approved by the six Colonies – incorporated the abstract of marital exclusivity among the legislative powers of the Parliament.

So, indelibly marked is this universally held concept’s generative distinction, that the law also excludes an adult from marrying a child.

Hence, the primary logical inference to draw from the nature wedlock, is that laws about marriage must philosophically allow for the possibility of new life. The situation is a sort of quasi-discriminatory bias which is categorically in favour of an utterly essential male and female union, whose author is the Infinite.

Ultimately, of course, this campaign’s quest to alter the meaning of marriage leads on to the conclusion that intrinsic nomenclature of same-sex marriage is a contradiction in terms. Any affirming Act of Parliament for such a change of meaning would perpetrate a fraud upon the Constitution’s bona fide marriage power.

Joseph F Sutherland KELMSCOTT, WA

Our love for new medical science costs all of us Although ageing of the population is often quoted as a factor in endless health care cost rises, there are other factors, writes Marcus Roberts.

T

he latest news about the cost of an ageing population on the cost of healthcare is quite interesting.

According to Maclean magazine, the major driver of spiralling healthcare is not the ageing of the population, but the cost of health technology: “As a recent report by the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s argues, your grandmother’s visits to the doctor aren’t the key driver of health costs. Health technology, however — encompassing anything from drugs to diagnostic imaging — is becoming the great burden on the health systems of G20 countries…

“Despite the popular rhetoric about the “gray tsunami” continually bandied about by politicians, there are some three decades of research showing that aging alone is a marginal and predictable driver of health-care cost increases, in the order of about 0.5 to one per cent per year. Most recently, a report

by Canadian Institute for Health Information noted that population aging contributed an annual average growth of only 0.8 per cent.

“Politicians, on the other hand,

too often neglect to address the drain on public coffers from technology-related costs. According to the CIHI report, spending on prescription drugs grew at an annual average rate of 10.1 per cent between 1998 to 2007 — a rise that was caused by both increased utilisation and a change in the mix of drug types.”

According to Assistant Professor Kimberlyn McGrail at the University of British Colombia, not only is health costing more, but we are all (no matter what our age is) using it more: “There are new drugs and new

Instead of demography, a real cost driver is increased ultilisation. conditions that they treat, there are new tests that can be done, and new recommendations for who should receive those tests and how often they should be getting them. There are new surgical procedures and better ways of doing older procedures that make surgery better and safer, but also means that a larger

pool of people are considered ‘eligible’ to receive those interventions.”

According to the Maclean article, since health care is costing more due to technology, and not the ageing population, this makes the problem more amenable to “sound policy responses”: “Instead of demographic determinism, ‘The real cost drivers are increased utilisation, across all age groups, technology, and labour costs,’ explains Canadian healthpolicy analyst, Marcus Hollander.

‘We have a policy and management challenge.’

Thus, the question is value for money: are we using our health resources in a prudent and sensible manner? Instead of blaming the rising cohort of elderly health users that they can do little about, politicians can instead be focussing their attention on getting the best health bang for the taxpayers’ buck.

This is especially important since with a rising cohort of elderly, there are less people in the working age bracket to provide those taxpayer dollars. That is where the real cost of an ageing population comes in and affects the health service.

Marcus Roberts teaches at Auckland University

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Evolution’s intriguing nexus with a young earth Science must vie with many creationist nuances; some are scientifically frustrating, but some are more compatible.

H

aving been asked by a journalist to respond to the creationist views on science and evolution theory of a Queensland geologist, I reflected on my experience of lecturing on evolution at Notre Dame.

In this instance, the Queenslander argued for a literal interpretation of creation as described in the Bible, including beliefs in young earth and global flood, and accused western science of filtering evidence for evolution through naturalist philosophy: a world view that excludes a spiritual influence.

It struck me that for almost a decade of engaging students in evolutionary theory and the surrounding dialogue (such as natural selection and mutation) I had never been directly challenged by such extreme creationist views.

This is somewhat surprising given the Catholic foundation of the university which positions us to foster academic debate around the nexus between creationism and science.

I concluded, however, even in

Higher Education

By Dylan Korczynskyj a ‘safe’ learning environment, the thought of pitching “young earth beliefs” against the diametrically opposed views of modern scientific thinking would be daunting, particularly in the context of a science course. But what does this division look like through the eyes of a scientist?

Science offers a path to understand our world based on a systematic and logical approach to the collection of reproducible evidence. It also encourages both peer and broader societal scrutiny.

This deliberate exposure therefore tests the reliability of evidence and guards against bias towards a particular view.

Thus, a scientific theory to explain an observation is only as robust as

the underpinning evidence. In this realm, unsubstantiated claims have no weight. It is irrelevant whether a person follows a particular philosophical view; science insists on removal of such ‘filters’ to allow examination of ‘raw’ evidence.

As science reveals new knowledge in this way, theories are re-evaluated: science is dynamic.

In some instances, the word ‘theory’ is appropriate but in others the strength of evidence is such that a theory is more appropriately considered ‘fact’. Evolution, to explain the diversity of life on earth, including the human species, is such a theory and widely accepted as fact.

On this point scientists are joined by many theologians and religious, only to differ on the point that the spiritual soul of humankind is created directly by God even if the origin of the human body comes through living matter which existed previously (for example, Pius XII’s Humani generis).

In light of the suggestion that naturalist philosophy influences

how western scientists interpret evidence for evolution, it would be contradictory to suggest the same philosophy influences interpretations of theologians and religious.

It is not surprising the weight of evidence for evolution is enormous.

Just as a forensic detective will piece together evidence to reveal the truth of a crime, for over 150 years scientists have tested the theory of evolution to reveal its undeniable truth.

Importantly, this evidence converges from many directions including direct observation (empirical science), encompassing a substantial fossil record, biochemistry and genetics, geology, embryology, comparative anatomy etc.

Not once has scientific evidence managed to introduce contradiction and not for the lack of trying: scientists relish the opportunity to disprove an existing theory.

Given the breadth and nature of evidence for evolution, it is not surprising this theory has a naturalistic ‘flavour’; however, it is incred-

ibly important to recognise it is not “naturalist philosophy” that has led to this knowledge.

Scientists who have engaged in debate around evolution with young earth creationists have been frustrated by views put forward due to the selective use of scientific evidence on which they are founded.

We can observe a time series of fossil intermediates bridging one species to the next, but unfortunately this has been dismissed as evidence of evolution. Evolutionist Richard Dawkins is a prolific writer and offers a good example of this frustration.

Inevitably, mainstream scientific consensus will always conflict with young Earth beliefs.

Returning to an earlier point, young Earth creationism is only one view in a series of creationist beliefs and others show greater levels of compatibility with evolution, and it is here where the nexus lies.

Associate Professor Dylan Korczynskyj is currently Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Fremantle Campus.

The gods of wealth and acquisition EF Schumacher’s invigorating take on the economics of man and creation should not be forgotten, writes Dr Andrew Kania.

I

t is almost Monty Pythonesque that every year we are treated to the quite extraordinary footage on television news programmes of the release of a new piece of Apple Computer hardware; be it the iPhone, iPod or iPad. Churches may be emptying but the young and not so young are hailing a new ‘saviour’ - Apple Inc. What raises eyebrows is the level of hysteria and devotion that surrounds a piece of metal and plastic.

The desire for customers to purchase new models of Apple Inc products, and in the process of sodoing discarding last year’s fullyfunctioning model, is in itself a study in resource wastage as well as an insight into modern man’s lust for economic growth.

We see lines of consumers, hundreds of metres long, outside Apple Inc stores, people queuing in the cold to purchase iPhone and iPad; and no sooner has one purchased this model than the eyes are once more on the internet looking for the release date for the next model with all the added extras that could have been easily incorporated in this release but were held off strategically for the next.

Even those who believe they are immune to such nonsense go to the workplace and fawn over someone displaying the latest iPhone. Like simple moths, we have been caught up in the garish light of marketing. Apple is our new viaticum: “Don’t let me leave this world, Lord, before the release of the new iPad; place this cherished item in my folded arms.”

Great computer producers as they are, what else can be said about Apple Inc? Well, in their February 2010 Annual Report, Apple admitted that in China, where iPads and iPhones are predominately made, children are working in sweat shop conditions and over half their overseas workers work more than 60 hours a week. Moreover: “Only 65 per cent of factories were paying the wages and benefits due to workers, and 24 factories in China violated minimum wage laws. One factory even fabricated documentation to hide their underage workers and workers’ rights violations from Apple.

Apple has now stopped using that

factory.” (Kloer, March 1, 2010, “Apple Admits Child Labour & Sweatshops Used to Build iPhones”). An article for London’s Daily Mail also highlighted that: “Factories making sought-after Apple iPads and iPhones in China are forcing staff to sign pledges not to commit suicide, an investigation has revealed. At least 14 workers at Foxconn factories in China have killed themselves in the last 16 months as a result of horrendous

The basic premise of Schumacher’s work is that when economists and businessmen become callously preoccupied, with output, consumption, economic growth and technology, what is tragically forgotten is the importance of the environment, quality of living, sustainable development, a sense of human community and the dignity of human labour. In the opening chapter, Schumacher explicitly states: “We must thoroughly

ics Schumacher sought to expose was the unchecked gluttonous quest for materialism. In a world increasingly devoid of God, wealth and acquisition have become gods, leading to environmental and also moral degradation. One cannot dismiss Schumacher as some bleary-eyed idealist out of touch with reality.

His economic ideals were framed working beside such formidable economic minds as

As Schumacher so rightly concluded: “man has built a system of production that ravishes nature and a society that mutilates man.” working conditions. Many more are believed to have either survived attempts or been stopped before trying at the Apple supplier’s plants in Chengdu or Shenzen.” (May 1, 2011). So, as people on one side of the world exercise their ‘right’ to conspicuous consumption, people on the other side are literally dying to satisfy this want.

Ranked by the London Times newspaper as one of the most influential books of post-World War II is Dr EF Schumacher’s collection of essays, Small is Beautiful (1973).

understand the problem and begin to see the possibility of evolving a new lifestyle, with new methods of production and new patterns of consumption: a lifestyle designed for permanence … We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature and, above all, with those Higher Powers which have made nature and have made us; for, assuredly, we have not come about by accident and certainly have not made ourselves” (pp16-17). One principle area of modern econom-

John Maynard Keynes and John Kenneth Galbraith. Quite possibly, you may not like what Schumacher says, you may not wish to hear it but he certainly is more than qualified to say at least something about the shape of modern economics.

What is most interesting about Schumacher’s work is his connection of spirituality with economics. To Schumacher the study of the allocation of material resources does not preclude the spiritual for within the conflagration of matter, production and consumption is the

most integral resource of all - man.

In a work written by an eminent economist, we read Schumacher debating what the new economy should look like, and what should become some of the pivotal tenets.

Schumacher writes: “Over the last hundred years no-one has spoken more insistently and warningly on this subject than the Roman pontiffs. What becomes of man if the process of production takes away from work any hint of humanity, making of it a merely mechanical activity? The worker himself is turned into a perversion of a free being. ‘And so bodily labour (said Pius XI) which even after original sin was decreed by Providence for the good of man’s body and soul, is in many instances changed into an instrument of perversion; for from the factory dead matter goes out improved, whereas men there are corrupted and degraded’” (Schumacher, 1973, p29).

The demands placed on Chinese workers, in the case of Apple, are certainly not those demanded of Apple workers in Silicon Valley.

Apple knows this all too well which is why they outsourced their operations to China. Human lives, even in this globalised world, aren’t worth the same. Half a dozen people killed in the US equates to more than a few thousand in China because the average standard of living in the US is higher than the average in China; and thus an American life is worth more. With such a degree of tunnel vision, it is no wonder that we in the West dump upon developing nations the production of items that are so far beyond the material reach of those making them.

As long as, at the end of the day, after we have queued for hours we receive our new phone, who cares? These people should be grateful for the pittance they receive. If they worked as hard as we do, they would be in our position. Nonsense. As Schumacher so rightly concluded, so long ago: “In the excitement over the unfolding of his scientific and technical powers, modern man has built a system of production that ravishes nature and a type of society that mutilates man”.

Dr Andrew Kania teaches at Aquinas College.

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PANORAMA

What’s on around the Archdiocese of Perth, where and when

NEXT WEEK

UPCOMING

SUNDAY, 18 MARCH

SUNDAY, 25 MARCH

Meditative Prayer in the Style of Taize 7-8pm at St Joseph’s Convent Chapel, 16 York Street, South Perth. Includes Scripture, prayer, song (mantra) and silence in candlelight. Chapel door open 6.30pm. Bring a friend and a torch. Enq: Sr Maree Riddler 0414 683 926.

Latin Mass 2pm at Good Shepherd Parish, 45 Streich Ave, Kelmscott. Enq: John 9390 6646.

Feast of St Joseph – Pilgrimage to St Anne’s, Bindoon 12pm BYO lunch. 1pm holy hour, prayers to St Joseph and exposition. 2pm Eucharistic procession, rosary, hymns/benediction. 2.30pm holy Mass followed by divine mercy chaplet. 3.45pm cuppa provided. 4.30pm return to Perth. Transport enq: Francis 9459 3873 or 0404 893 877 or Laurine 9576 0491 or 0448 833 472 or Fr Paul 9571 1839.

TUESDAY, 20 MARCH Lenten Preparation 7-8pm at St Benedict’s School Hall, Alness St Applecross. Spirituality and the Sunday Gospels, make this Lent a time of growth and preparation for an outpouring of grace this Easter. Presenter Norma Woodcock. There will be a collection.

Accredited - CEO - Faith Formation for ongoing renewal - $10 reg. Enq: 9487 1772 or www.normawoodcock.com.

THURSDAY, 22 MARCH Family Faith Feast Preparing for Easter 6-8pm at St Denis Parish, cnr Osborne and Roberts Sts, Joondanna. Bring some finger food to share.

Activities for adults and children. Opportunities for all family members to prepare for Easter. This will be held in the new courtyard between the church and the parish house. To make sure we have enough material, book ASAP and Enq: Fr Paul 9328 8113.

FRIDAY, 23 MARCH Holy Trinity Community Holy Hour Adoration 7pm at St Benedict Parish, 115 Ardross St, Ardross.

Taize Prayer Evening 7-8pm at St Lawrence Church, Balcatta. Spend an hour listening to simple music (canons), short readings from Scripture and intercession prayer.

Reflect on the mercy of God in silence. Enq: Fr Irek 9344 7066 or www.stlawrence.org.au.

Drama Presentation of Stations of the Cross 7.30pm at St Denis Parish, cnr Osborne and Roberts Sts, Joondanna. These stations powerfully depict the Way of the Cross visually and its prayerful reflections let everyone have an experience of Lent which is both challenging and comforting.

People attending these stations are invited to remember their loved ones who have died. After the stations there will be a light supper. Enq: Joanne 9349 4964.

FRIDAY, 23 TO SUNDAY, 25 MARCH Inner Healing Retreat (Live-in) 7.30pm at St John of God Retreat Centre, 47 Gloucester Cr, Shoalwater. A time to be healed and renewed. The retreat is led by the Vincentian Fathers. Registration and enq: Melanie 0410 605 743 or vincetiansperth@yahoo.com.

SATURDAY, 24 MARCH The Alliance of the Holy Family International Lenten Recollection 11am at Bioethics Centre, Jugan St, Glendalough.

Focused on the sanctity and preservation of families led by Fr Ronan Murphy. Bring plate to share.

Enq: Vicky 0400 282 357, Nick 0428 953 471 or John/Joy 9344 2609.

Relax in God’s Presence 1.30-4.30pm at St Swithan’s Anglican Parish, 195 Lesmurdie Road, Lesmurdie. Meeting room (located behind the church). Are you feeling stressed? Take time for yourself. You are invited to an afternoon of being pampered in God’s Spirit.

The programme includes relaxing Christian music, feet washing, scripture and imagination, be still in peace, thankfulness, fellowship. Afternoon tea followed. Gold coin donation. Enq: Lynne 0435 252 941.

There Be Dragons Movie Screening A powerful story of war, tragedy, love and redemption. 3pm, Hoyts Cinema Garden City Shopping Centre, Booragoon. Adults $20. Students 15-18 yrs $10. Online ticket bookings go to www.thefaith. org.au or phone bookings on 6140 2420. An initiative by The Faith Centre.

SATURDAY, 24 TO SUNDAY, 25 MARCH St Joseph’s Central School Oberon Centenary Celebration 7pm St Joseph’s Central School Oberon, 129 Queen St, Oberon, NSW. The school opened when four Josephite Sisters from Perthville arrived in Oberon in 1912. Saturday begins with dinner and Sunday begins with 10am Mass. All past students are cordially invited to attend centenary celebrations to meet up with old friends and share memories.

Enq: Secretary (02) 6336 1384.

School Reunion - Sacred Heart High School, Highgate 2-5pm at Sacred Heart Primary School new hall, Highgate. To protect the floor of the building guests are asked not to wear high heels. Please enter through Harold St gate. Parking limited.

Registration office, 79 Seventh Ave, Maylands, or phone 9271 0597 or rndmsecaus@olm.org.au.

Human Experience Film 6.30pm at St Paul’s Primary School, cnr Learoyd and Rookwood Sts, Mt Lawley. Entry by donation.

Enq: Tina 0415 382 541.

Acies Ceremony 2pm at St Jerome’s Parish, Troode St, Munster. We invite all active and auxiliary members and friends of the Legion to the ceremony.

TUESDAY, 27 MARCH The Archdiocesan Retreat 10am at the Holy Rosary Parish Hall, cnr Thomas and Elizabeth Sts, Nedlands. Followed with Mass celebrated at 11.30 followed by a light luncheon.

Retreat will be conducted by Fr Paschal Kearney.

FRIDAY, 30 MARCH Medjugorje Evening Prayer 7-9pm with Our Lady Queen of Peace at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Parish, 77 Seventh Ave, Maylands. Evening consists of Eucharistic adoration, rosary, benediction and holy Mass. Free DVDs given on night of conversion of Fr Calloway. For pilgrimages to Medjugorje see classified. Enq: Eileen 9402 2480 or 0407 471 256 or medjugorje@ y7mail.com.

FRIDAY, 30 MARCH AND SATURDAY, 31 MARCH Seminar on Life in a New Century Living a contemplative life in the 21st century as a mother of a large family or as a single person, as a CEO or a truckdriver, etc. For young adults: Friday eve, 30 March, 7.30am-9pm and Saturday, 31 March, 10am-4pm. Fr Anthony OP 0438 208 952.

SATURDAY, 31 MARCH Love Ministry Healing After the 6.30pm Mass at St Brigid Parish, 69 Morrison Rd, Midland. The Love Ministry healing team includes Fr Nishan and Fr David Watt. All welcome, come and be prayed over, healed from the past or present issues or stand in for a loved one who may be ill or facing problems at this time. Enq: Gilbert 0431 570 322 or Fr David Watt on 9376 1734.

SUNDAY, 1 APRIL Goliath Music Festival Perth Catholic Youth Ministry will be hosting an original Catholic music festival and we’re seeking local musicians and songwriters to get involved.

Open mic nights will be held fortnightly from Wed, 15 February after CYM Holy Hours to feature original Catholic music. Enq: admin@cym.com.au or 9422 7912.

MONDAY, 2 APRIL Open Day at La Salle College 9.30-11.30am and 1.40pm at La Salle College, open day tours. 5 La Salle Ave, Middle Swan. View our extensive facilities. Register preferred tour time via events@lasalle.wa.edu.au or mail to: events@lasalle.wa.edu.au or 9274 6266.

FRIDAY, 6 APRIL Divine Mercy Novena 2.30pm at Holy Family Parish, Lot 375, Alcock St, Maddington. Confession. 3-4pm divine mercy chaplet and novena, preaching on divine mercy, prayers for healing. Enq: 9493 1703.

THURSDAY, 12 APRIL Life in the Spirit Seminar 7.30pm at The Good Shepherd Parish, cnr Morley Dr and Altone Rd, Lockridge. The seminar will run for seven weeks every Thursday. Enq: Colleen on 9377 5133 or Shirley on 9279 9165.

FRIDAY, 13 APRIL There Be Dragons Movie Screening A powerful story of war, tragedy, love and redemption. 7pm, Hoyts Millennium, Collie St, Fremantle. Adults $20. Students 15-18 yrs $10.

Online ticket bookings go to www.thefaith.org.au or phone bookings on 6140 2420. An initiative by The Faith Centre.

SATURDAY, 14 APRIL Divine Mercy Novena 2.30pm at Holy Family Parish, Lot 375, Alcock St, Maddington. Confession. 3-4pm divine mercy chaplet and novena, preaching on divine mercy, prayers for healing. Enq: 9493 1703.

SUNDAY, 15 APRIL Divine Mercy 1.30pm at St Mary’s Cathedral. The Feast of Divine Mercy will be celebrated with reconciliation, holy rosary and chaplet of divine mercy, followed by holy Mass at 2.30pm. The main celebrant and homilist for the afternoon will be Bishop Don Sproxton and other priests are invited to celebrate.

After holy Mass, benediction will be offered by Fr Tizano Bogoni and concludes with veneration of two first class relics of St Faustina Kowalska. Tea and coffee available at parish centre.

4th Annual Celebration of the Feast of Divine Mercy 2-3pm at Holy Family Parish, Lot 375, Alcock St, Maddington. Confession, 3-5pm procession with divine mercy icon, Eucharistic adoration. Enq: 9493 1703.

SATURDAY, 21 AND SUNDAY, 22 APRIL Catholic Faith Renewal Retreat 9am-6pm at James Neston Hall, 50 Ruislip St, West Leederville. Fr Gino Henriques will lead retreat on “God’s life giving covenant of love in marriage and family life”. Enq: Kathy 9295 0913 or Ann 0412 16 6164 or catholicfaithrenewal@gmail.com.

SUNDAY, 29 APRIL 75th Anniversary 10am Mass at St Francis Xavier Church, Quairading followed by lunch. Celebrating the anniversary of the blessing and opening of the parish. Enq: Boyle (08) 9645 1513 or Box 163, Quairading 6383.

SUNDAY, 6 MAY 2012 Busselton May Rosary Pilgrimage in Honour of Our Lady 2.30pm at Queen of the Holy Rosary Shrine, Bove’s Farm, Roy Rd, Jindong, Busselton. Begins with hymn singing and concelebrated Mass led by Fr Tony at 1pm. Followed by rosary procession, benediction and afternoon tea. Note: Roy Rd runs off Bussell Hwy, approx halfway between Busselton and Margaret River. Enq and bus bookings: Francis 0404 893 877 or 9459 3873.

REGULAR EVENTS EVERY SUNDAY Gate of Heaven Catholic Radio Join the Franciscans of the Immaculate from 7.309pm on Radio Fremantle 107.9FM for Catholic radio broadcast of EWTN and our own live shows. Enq: radio@ausmaria.com.

Pilgrim Mass - Shrine of the Virgin of the Revelation 2pm at Shrine, 36 Chittering Rd, Bullsbrook.

Commencing with rosary followed by benediction.

Reconciliation is available before every celebration.

Anointing of the sick administered during Mass every second Sunday of the month. Pilgrimage in honour of the Virgin of the Revelation last Sunday of the month. Side entrance to church and shrine open daily between 9am-5pm. Enq Sacri 9447 3292.

EVERY FIRST SUNDAY St Mary’s Cathedral Youth Group – Fellowship with Pizza 5pm at St Mary’s Cathedral, 17 Victoria Sq, Perth.

Begins with youth Mass followed by fellowship downstairs in parish centre. Bring a plate to share.

Enq: Bradley on youthfromsmc@gmail.com.

EVERY THIRD SUNDAY Oblates of St Benedict – Meeting 2pm at St Joseph’s Convent, York St, South Perth.

For all interested in studying the Rule of St Benedict and its relevance to the everyday life of today for laypeople: Vespers and afternoon tea afterwards. Enq: Secretary 9457 5758.

The Life and Mission of St Mary MacKillop 9.30-11.30am at Infant Jesus Parish Centre, cnr Wellington Rd and Smith St, Morley. Cost: $15.

Enq: Shelley 9276 8500.

LAST MONDAY OF THE MONTH Be Still in His Presence – Ecumenical Christian Programme 7.30-8.45pm at St Swithun Anglican Church, 195 Lesmurdie St, Lesmurdie (hall behind church).

Begins with songs of praise and worship, silent time, lectio divina, small group sharing and a cuppa at the end. Enq: Lynne 9293 3848 or 043 5252 941.

EVERY TUESDAY Bible Teaching with a Difference 7.30pm at St Joachim’s parish hall, Victoria Park.

Exciting revelations with meaningful applications that will change your life. Bring Bible, a notebook and a friend. Enq: Jan 9284 1662.

Novena to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal 6pm at Pater Noster Church, Marmion and Evershed Sts, Myaree. Mass at 5.30pm followed by benediction. Enq: John 040 8952 194.

EVERY FIRST TUESDAY Short MMP Cenacle for Priests 2pm at Edel Quinn Centre, 36 Windsor St, East Perth. Enq: Fr Watt 9376 1734.

EVERY WEDNESDAY Holy Spirit of Freedom Community 7.30pm at The Church of Christ, 111 Stirling St, Perth. We are delighted to welcome everyone to attend our Holy Spirit of Freedom praise meeting.

Enq: 042 3907 869 or hsofperth@gmail.com.

Bible Study at Cathedral 6.15pm at St Mary’s Cathedral, 17 Victoria Sq, Perth.

Deepen your faith through reading and reflecting on holy scripture by Fr Jean-Noel. Meeting room beneath Cathedral. Enq: Marie 9223 1372.

Holy Hour - Catholic Youth Ministry CYM is back in 2012, followed by $5 supper and fellowship. Mass at 5.30pm and Holy Hour (adoration) at 6.30pm at the Catholic Pastoral Centre, 40A Mary St, Highgate. Enq: www.cym.com or 9422 7912.

EVERY FIRST WEDNESDAY Holy Hour Prayer for Priests 7.30-8.30pm at Holy Spirit Parish, 2 Keaney Pl, City Beach. All welcome. Enq: Linda 9341 3079.

Novena to St Mary of the Cross MacKillop 7-7.45pm at Blessed Mary MacKillop Parish, cnr Cassowary Dr and Pelican Pde, Ballajura. Begins with Mass, novena prayers and benediction.

Followed by healing prayers and anointing of the sick. Enq: Madi 9249 9093 or Gerry 0417 187 240.

EVERY SECOND WEDNESDAY Chaplets of the Divine Mercy 7.30pm at St Thomas More Parish, Dean Rd, Bateman. A beautiful, prayerful, sung devotion.

Includes exposition followed by benediction. Enq: George 9310 9493 or 9325 2010 (w).

EVERY THURSDAY Divine Mercy 11am at Ss John and Paul Church, Pinetree Gully Rd, Willetton. Pray the rosary and chaplet of divine mercy and for the consecrated life, especially here in John Paul Parish. Concludes with veneration of the first class relic of St Faustina. Please do come and join us in prayer. Enq: John 9457 7771.

St Mary’s Cathedral Praise Meeting 7.45pm every Thursday at the Legion of Mary’s Edel Quinn Centre, 36 Windsor St, East Perth. Includes praise, song and healing ministry. Enq: Kay 9382 3668 or fmi@flameministries.org.

EVERY FOURTH SUNDAY

EVERY FIRST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH

Holy Hour for Vocations to the Priesthood, Religious Life 2-3pm at Infant Jesus Parish, Wellington St, Morley. The hour includes exposition of the blessed Eucharist, silent prayer, scripture and prayers of intercession. Come and pray that those discerning vocations can hear clearly God’s call.

Prayer in Style of Taize 7.30-8.30pm at Our Lady of Grace Parish, 3 Kitchener St, North Beach. Includes prayer, song and silence in candlelight – symbol of Christ the light of the world. Taize info: www.taize.fr. Enq: secretary 9448 4888 or 9448 4457.

Voice of the Voiceless Healing Mass 12pm at St Brigid’s Parish, 211 Aberdeen St, Northbridge. Bring a plate to share after Mass.

Enq: Frank 9296 7591 or 0408 183 325.

Group Fifty – Charismatic Renewal Group 7.30pm at the Redemptorist Monastery, 150 Vincent St, North Perth. Includes prayer, praise and Mass. Enq: Elaine 9440 3661.

EVERY MONDAY

EVERY FIRST FRIDAY Healing Mass 7pm at St Peter’s Parish, Inglewood. Praise and worship, exposition and Eucharistic adoration, benediction and anointing of the sick, followed by holy Mass and fellowship. Celebrants Fr Dat and invited priests. 6.45pm Reconciliation. Enq: Mary Ann 0409 672 304, Prescilla 043 3457 352 and Catherine 043 3923 083.

Evening Adoration and Mass 7pm at St Thomas Parish, Claremont, cnr Melville St and College Rd. Eucharistic adoration, reconciliation, evening prayer and benediction, followed by Mass and night prayer at 8pm. Enq: Kim on 9384 0598 or email to claremont@perthcatholic.org.au.

Holy Hour for Vocations to the Priesthood and Religious Life 7pm at Little Sisters of the Poor Chapel, 2 Rawlins St, Glendalough. Mass followed by adoration with Fr Doug Harris. All welcome. Refreshments provided.

EVERY LAST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH Filipino Mass 3pm at Notre Dame Church, cnr Daley and Wright Sts, Cloverdale. Please bring a plate to share for socialisation after the Mass. Enq: Fr Nelson Po 0410 843 412, Elsa 0404 03 8483.

Healing and Anointing Mass 8.45am Pater Noster Church, Evershed St, Myaree.

Begins with reconciliation followed by 9am Mass of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, anointing of the sick and prayers to St Peregrine. Enq: Joy 9337 7189.

EVERY FIRST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH Healing Mass 12.35pm at St Thomas Parish, cnr Melville St and College Rd, Claremont. Spiritual leader Fr Waddell.

Enq: Kim 9384 0598, claremont@perthcatholic.org. au.

EVERY LAST SATURDAY Novena Devotions – Our Lady Vailankanni of Good Health 5pm at Holy Trinity Parish, 8 Burnett St, Embleton.

Followed by Mass at 6pm. Enq: George 9272 1379.

GENERAL Free Divine Mercy Image for Parishes High quality oil painting and glossy print – Divine Mercy Promotions. Images are of very high quality.

For any parish willing to accept and place inside the church. Oil paintings - 160 x 90cm and glossy print - 100 x 60cm. Enq: Irene 9417 3267 (w).

Sacred Heart Pioneers Is there anyone out there who would like to know more about the Sacred Heart pioneers? If so, please contact Spiritual Director Fr Doug Harris 9444 6131 or John 9457 7771.

St Philomena’s Chapel 3/24 Juna Drive, Malaga. Mass of the day: Monday 6.45am. Vigil Masses: Mon-Fri 4.45pm. Enq: Fr David 9376 1734.

Mary MacKillop Merchandise Available for sale from the Mary MacKillop Centre.

Enq: Sr Maree 041 4683 926 or 08 9334 0933.

Financially Disadvantaged People Requiring Low Care Aged Care Placement The Little Sisters of the Poor community - set in beautiful gardens in the suburb of Glendalough.

“Making the elderly happy, that is everything!” St Jeanne Jugan (foundress). Registration and enq: Sr Marie 9443 3155.

Resource Centre for Personal Development The Holistic Health Seminar “The Instinct to Heal’’, every Tuesday 3-4.30pm; and RCPD2 “Internalise Principles of Successful Relationships and Use Emotional Intelligence and Communication Skills” every Tuesday 4.30-6.30pm, 197 High St, Fremantle - Tuesdays 3-4.30pm. Beginning 21 Feb. Enq: Eva 0409 405 585. Bookings are essential.

Courses held at The Faith Centre in 2012 450 Hay St, Perth 1. RCPD2 - Internalise Principles of Successful Relationships and Use Emotional Intelligence and Communication Skills This course provides knowledge of principles that, if applied, will improve all relationships. Skills of self-analysis are taught as well as communication skills. Mondays: 5-7pm, from 20 Feb–10 Dec. For enquiries or bookings ph Paul 0402 222 578.

2. RCPD4 – Increase Personal and Spiritual Awareness and Improve Relationships This course promotes self-awareness and spiritual growth. Emotional development is explained in order to improve understanding between persons. Study of Psychology and Theology. Mondays: 10am–12.30pm, from 20 Feb–10 Dec. For enquiries or bookings ph Eva 0409 405 585.

3. Higher Certificate in Biblical Studies The Higher Certificate of Biblical Studies is a distance education programme that can be followed in your own home at your own pace with periodic face-to-face contact workshops. Tutorial assistance is available as required. It is equivalent to a one-year tertiary course, although it is recommended that you aim to complete it in two years.

For enquiries and enrolment, ph The Faith Centre on 6140 2420.

Is your son or daughter unsure of what to do this year?

Suggest a Certificate IV course to discern God’s purpose for their life. They will also learn more about the Catholic faith and develop skills in communication and leadership. Acts 2 College of Mission & Evangelisation (National Code 51452).

Enq: Jane 9202 6859.

AA Alcoholics Anonymous Is alcohol costing you more than just money? Enq: AA 3253 5666.

Saints and Sacred Relics Apostolate Invite SSRA, Perth invites interested parties, parish priests, leaders of religious communities, lay associations, to organise relic visitations to their own parishes, communities, etc. We have available authenticated relics, mostly first-class, of Catholic saints and blesseds including Sts Mary Mackillop, Padre Pio, Anthony of Padua, Therese of Lisieux, Maximilian Kolbe and Simon Stock and Blessed Pope John Paul II. Free of charge and all welcome. Enq: Giovanny 0478 201 092 or ssra-perth@ catholic.org.

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CATHOLICS CORNER Retailer of Catholic products specialising in gifts, cards and apparel for Baptism, Communion and Confirmation. Ph 9456 1777.

Shop 12, 64-66 Bannister Rd, Canning Vale. Open Mon-Sat.

ROOM FOR RENT Secure, luxury house – Midland. Owner/ good cook - motivated person required. 0419 968 051.

RICH HARVEST YOUR CHRISTIAN SHOP Looking for Bibles, CDs, books, cards, gifts, statues, Baptism/Communion apparel, religious vestments, etc? Visit us at 39 Hulme Ct (off McCoy St), Myaree. Ph 9329 9889 (after 10.30am Mon to Sat).

We are here to serve.

KINLAR VESTMENTS Quality handmade and decorated vestments: albs, stoles, chasubles, altar linen, banners, etc. 12 Favenc Way, Padbury.

By appointment only. Ph Vickii on 9402 1318, 0409 114 093 or kinlar.vestments@gmail.com.

MISSION ACTIVITIES LEARN HOW TO MAKE ROSARY BEADS for the missions and special rosaries for family and friends. Phone: (02) 6822 1474 or visit our website: OurLadysRosaryMakers.org.au.

MISSIO IMMACULATAE THE FRANCISCAN FRIARS OF THE IMMACULATE MARIAN CATECHETICAL MAGAZINE $36 for five issues. Ph 08 9437 2792 or ffimunster@gmail.com.

All for the Immaculate.

TAX SERVICE QUALITY TAX RETURNS PREPARED by registered tax agent with over 35 years’ experience.

Call Tony Marchei on 0412 055 184 for appointment. AXXO Accounting & Management, Unit 20/222 Walter Rd, Morley.

SETTLEMENTS ARE YOU BUYING OR SELLING real estate or a business?

Why not ask Excel Settlements for a quote for your settlement.

We offer reasonable fees, excellent service and no hidden costs.

Ring Excel on 9481 4499 for a quote. Check our web site on www.excelsettlements.com.au.

BOOK BINDING NEW BOOK BINDING, general book repairs; rebinding; new ribbons; old leather bindings restored. Tydewi Bindery 0422 968 572.

Continued from page 18 40 Days For Life Campaign Pray to end abortion. Take part in the world-wide, pro-life campaign to pray for mothers and their unborn children, as well as all those involved in the abortion industry. Runs from Wednesday, 22 February to Sunday, 1 April. Join the 40 day challenge: www.40daysforlife.com/ PerthWA. Enq: Helen 9402 0349 or Tina 0415 382 541.

A Different Lenten Programme WAVN (Western Australian Vocations Network) - short Lenten programme to reflect on the significance of the psalms in Christian worship. Sundays: 6-7.30pm.

Dates: 18 and 25 March; 1 April. Venue: Archbishop Clune Lecture Theatre, Newman Siena Centre, 33 Williamstown Rd, Doubleview. Enq: Kathy 0418 926 590.

Scholarships, Year 7, 2013 - Closing 31 March 2012 La Salle College invites applications for Year 7, 2013 Academic Scholarships. The scholarship offers successful applicants full tuition through to Year 10. The examination will take place at La Salle College on Saturday, 31 March 2012. Closing date for registration is 20 March. No late applica-

FURNITURE REMOVAL ALL AREAS. Competitive rates.

Mike Murphy Ph 0416 226 434.

TRADE SERVICES BRENDAN HANDYMAN SERVICES Home, building maintenance, repairs and renovations. NOR. Ph 0427 539 588.

PROPERTY MAINTENANCE Your handyperson. No job too small. SOR. Jim 0413 309 821.

BRICK RE-POINTING Ph Nigel 9242 2952.

PICASSO PAINTING Top service. Ph 0419 915 836, 9345 0557 or fax 9345 0505.

PERROTT PAINTING Pty Ltd For all your residential, commercial painting requirements. Ph Tom Perrott 9444 1200.

LAWNMOWING AND WEED SPRAYING Garden clean ups and rubbish removal. Get rid of bindii, jojo and other unsightly weeds. Based in Tuart Hill. Enq: 9443 9243 or 0402 326 637.

INTENTIONS OH MOST BEAUTIFUL FLOWER OF MT CARMEL, FRUITFUL VINE, splendour of Heaven.

Blessed Mother of the Son of God, Immaculate Virgin assist me in this my necessity. Oh Star of the Sea, help me and show me herein you are my Mother. Oh holy Mary Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth, I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to succour me my necessity (make request). There are none that can withstand your power. Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee (3 times). Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3 times) Amen. Say this prayer for three consecutive days.

PILGRIMAGES TO OUR LADY OF VELANKANNI, ST FRANCIS XAVIER, ST PHILOMENA, ST MOTHER THERESA OF KOLKATA Tour covers all main cities in India: Chennai, Pondicherry, Velankanni, Bangalore, Mysore,

tions will be accepted. The Scholarship Selection Test is run by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) and incurs a fee. To register, visit the college website at www.lasalle.wa.edu. au and view Scholarships under Parent Resources. Enq: Angela 9274 6266.

Aboriginal Scholarships, Year 7, 2013 – Closing 27 April 2012 As a commitment to working with Aboriginal people to enhance life choices and help further career opportunities for Aboriginal youth, La Salle College offers Aboriginal Scholarships each year. This scholarship entitles the recipients to full/ partial tuition. Applications close 27 April 2012. An application form can be downloaded from the college website at www. lasalle.wa.edu.au by viewing Scholarships under Parent Resources.

Enrolments, Year 7, 2014 La Salle College is now accepting enrolments for Year 7, 2014. For a prospectus and enrolment form please contact college reception on 9274 6266 or email lasalle@lasalle.wa.edu.au.

Pellegrini Books Wanted An order of Sisters in Italy is looking for the following: The Living Pyx of Jesus, Fervourings From Galilee’s Hills,

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Cochin, Goa, Delhi, Thaij Mahal, Kolkata, Darjeeling and more.

Contact Charles Donovan 0400 216 257 or F Sam 0426 506 510.

OPTION 1: 25 DAYS: PILGRIMAGE TO HOLY LAND, ROME, COLLAVALENZA, DUBLIN (IRELAND FOR EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS), KNOCK AND MEDJUGORJE Departing 22 May, from $7,790, includes flight transfers, bed, breakfast, evening meals, guide, taxes. Spiritual Director Fr Ronan Murphy.

Leader Yolanda Nardizzi. Tel: 9245 2222, Mob 0413 707 707.

OPTION 2: 19 DAYS: PILGRIMAGE TO ROME, COLLAVALENZA, DUBLIN (IRELAND FOR EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS), KNOCK AND MEDJUGORJE. Departing 29 May, from $5,990, includes flight transfers, bed, breakfast, evening meals, guide, taxes. Spiritual Dir-ector Fr Ronan Murphy. Leader Yolanda Nardizzi. Tel: 9245 2222, Mob 0413 707 707.

PILGRIMAGE DEPART PERTH 30 APRIL, RETURN 17/18 MAY (early hours) for Paris (3 nights) visit Lisieux (St Therese), Notre Dame for Relics of The Passion, Sacre Coeur, Miraculous Medal Shrine, St Vincent De Paul. Flight to Lourdes 5 nights stay, flight to Split 7 nights stay in Medjugorje.

Spiritual Director Fr Bogoni.

Costs $5,395: includes flight transfers, bed, breakfast, evening meals, guide, tipping and taxes.

Contact: Eileen 9402 2480 Mob 0407 471 256, or medjugorje@ y7mail.com.

POSITIONS AVAILABLE CARETAKER WESTCARE ACCOMMODATION SERVICES We require a live-in caretaker who is to be available, manage our after-hours attendance and provide support to our residents with a disability who live in our village in Shenton Park.

A furnished unit will be provided rent free for the caretaker on a seven day basis.

This after-hours position also involves approx 10 hours paid casual employment per week.

Interested applicants please contact the manager (Jim Mason) on 9318 1916 during business hours.

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Day with Mary As the first Saturday in April is Holy Saturday, there will be no Day With Mary.

The next one will be on 5 May at St Jerome Parish in Munster.

Communion of Reparation All Night Vigils - Good Friday As Friday, 6 April falls on Good Friday, the Friday/Saturday vigils at St Gerard Majella Church Mirrabooka, and Corpus Christi Church Mosman Park, will not take place but will recommence on Friday, 4 May as usual.

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Fervourings From the Love-Broken Heart of Christ, Fervourings From the Lips of the Mast, Listening to the Indwelling Presence, Sheltering the Divine Outcast, Daily Inspection and Cleansing of the Living Temple of God, and Staunch Friends of Jesus, the Lover of Youth. If you are able to help, please contact Justine on 0419 964 624 or justine@waterempire.com.

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